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1. digistep
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Scenario:

   -I create a file with phpinfo(); in it.
   -I scan for any references for mod_rewrite in the php info page
   -I see nothing and this tells my that the module is not present. Or to see for yourself: http://www.dave-adams.me/checkversion.php

   Outcome:
   -WordPress works anyways.

   Why?

   Upon inspection, WordPress creates or modifies the .htaccess file with something like:

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   # END WordPress

   Question: is this how WordPress works around the fact that mod_rewrite is not present? Or am I completely wrong?

2. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Question: is this how WordPress works around the fact that mod_rewrite is not present? Or am I completely wrong?

   Magic, with little elves™ in the background. They're on loan from Santa when he migrated from MT. :D

   The answer is that your server is running mod_rewrite but your PHP just doesn't know it.

   See this part in your phpinfo() output?

   Server API 	CGI/FastCGI

   Your PHP installation is running in CGI mode so it doesn't know about the Apache installation much. If it were the Apache module you'd see this

   Server API 	Apache 2.0 Handler

   And you would also see a whole Apache Environment section that your output is lacking.

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