# RoR&Apache - htaccess rewrite directories fail? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 28, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-apache-htaccess-rewrite-directories-fail/87199 "2007-02-28T20:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![onionknight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/cc9497/32.png) [@onionknight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/onionknight)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-apache-htaccess-rewrite-directories-fail/87199/1 "2007-02-28T20:34:36Z")
On my server I have a directory at the root, /rails/ which contains other directories with rails projects. In my httpd.conf I have RewriteEngine On RewriteLog “logs/rewrite.log” RewriteLogLevel 9 RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} !^/rails/([^/]+)/public/ RewriteRule ^/rails/([^/]+)/?(.\*)$ /rails/$1/public/$2 [QSA,L] So with a GET /rails/test/ you’d get sent to /rails/test/public/ and get the welcome screen fully functional, except for the link “About your application’s environment” which spits out an Application Error box underneath when clicked. The .htaccess in the public/ dir is the default one from creating the project and has AllowOverride all. .htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] A request for /rails/test/something first gets a /public/ put there in between, and then the .htaccess takes which if I’ve gotten it right sets the requested file to index.html if nothing was requested, something.html if “something” does not have an extension (i.e no dot in it) and if there is no something.html the requested file gets finally changed to dispatch.cgi/something where a controller/view takes care of it. It is that last that won’t work as it should, and I’m not sure why. /rails/test/something should become /rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi/something but really just becomes /rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi, the path info is gone. From rewrite.log: (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /rails/test/something (3) applying pattern ‘^/rails/([^/]+)/?(._)$’ to uri ‘/rails/test/something’ (4) RewriteCond: input=’/rails/test/something’ pattern=’!^/rails/([^/]+)/public/’ =\> matched (2) rewrite ‘/rails/test/something’ -\> ‘/rails/test/public/something’ (2) local path result: /rails/test/public/something (2) prefixed with document\_root to C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/something (1) go-ahead with C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/something [OK] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] strip per-dir prefix: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/something -\> something (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] applying pattern ‘^$’ to uri ‘something’ (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] strip per-dir prefix: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/something -\> something (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] applying pattern ‘^([^.]+)$’ to uri ‘something’ (2) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] rewrite ‘something’ -\> ‘something.html’ (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] add per-dir prefix: something.html -\> C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/something.html (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] strip per-dir prefix: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/something.html -\> something.html (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] applying pattern '^(._)$’ to uri ‘something.html’ (4) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] RewriteCond: input=‘C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/something.html’ pattern=’!-f’ =\> matched (2) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] rewrite ‘something.html’ -\> ‘dispatch.cgi’ (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] add per-dir prefix: dispatch.cgi -\> C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi (2) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] strip document\_root prefix: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi -\> /rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi (1) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] internal redirect with /rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi [INTERNAL REDIRECT] [redir#1] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi [redir#1] (3) applying pattern ‘^/rails/([^/]+)/?(._)$’ to uri ‘/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi’ [redir#1] (4) RewriteCond: input=’/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi’ pattern=’!^/rails/([^/]+)/public/’ =\> not-matched [redir#1] (1) pass through /rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi [redir#1] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] strip per-dir prefix: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi -\> dispatch.cgi [redir#1] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] applying pattern ‘^$’ to uri ‘dispatch.cgi’ [redir#1] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] strip per-dir prefix: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi -\> dispatch.cgi [redir#1] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] applying pattern ‘^([^.]+)$’ to uri ‘dispatch.cgi’ [redir#1] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] strip per-dir prefix: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi -\> dispatch.cgi [redir#1] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] applying pattern '^(._)$’ to uri ‘dispatch.cgi’ [redir#1] (4) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] RewriteCond: input=‘C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi’ pattern=’!-f’ =\> not-matched [redir#1] (1) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/] pass through C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/rails/test/public/dispatch.cgi It looks like the path info is lost somewhere, however the errors I get seem to indicate that the first five characters get cut off: /rails/test/something Routing Error Recognition failed for “ing” /rails/test/something/completely\_different Routing Error Recognition failed for “ing/completely\_different” /rails/test/somethi Routing Error Recognition failed for “i”