Alright here is the situation: I use to have my codeigniter site at bluehost were I did not have root access, I have since moved that site to rackspace. I have not changed any of the PHP code yet there has been some unexpected behavior.
Unexpected Behavior:
http://mysite.com/robots.txt Both old and new resolve to the robots file
http://mysite.com/robots.txt/ The old bluehost setup resolves to my codeigniter 404 error page. The rackspace config resolves to: Not Found The requested URL /robots.txt/ was not found on this server.
**This instance leads me to believe that there could be a problem with my mod rewrites or lack there of. The first one produces the error correctly through php while it seems the second senario lets the server handle this error.
The next instance of this problem is even more troubling: 'http://mysite.com/search/term/9 x 1-1%2F2 white/'
New site results in: Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Old site results in: The actual page being loaded and the search term being unencoded.
I have to assume that this has something to do with the fact that when I went to the new server I went from root level htaccess file to httpd.conf file and virtual server default and default-ssl. Here they are:
Default file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName mysite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# force no www. (also does the IP thing)
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.(\d+)\.(js|css|png|jpg|gif)$ $1.$3 [L]
# index.php remove any index.php parts
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.(php|html)
RewriteRule (.*)index\.(php|html)(.*)$ /$1$3 [r=301,L]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Default-ssl File Basically the same as the Default file above only used to handle ssl port
httpd.conf File Just a lot of stuff from html5 boiler plate, I will post it if need be
Old htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# index.php remove any index.php parts
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.(php|html)
RewriteRule (.*)index\.(php|html)(.*)$ /$1$3 [r=301,L]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [r=301,L]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
This is the redirect responsible for directing every request to the index.php file to begin with...this is where i think the problem is (might have something to do with the directory? maybe something with my apache config?
RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|assets|robots.txt|sitemap.xml|favicon.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Any Help would be hugely appreciated!!
