htaccess problem – WP not rendering

  • kg0279

    (@kg0279)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Sorry – I’m a newbie.
    I’ve just ported a site from another host where I had a an htaccess file already working. On the new host I have WordPress installed.

    The ISP automatically added the AddType line “AddType x-httpd-php53 .php” as the first line to my existing .htaccess file. Well and good.. but my WP home page renders as a directory browsing list.

    If I remove all my content from the .htaccess, leaving only the single “AddType x-httpd-php53 .php” line then the page renders properly.

    I have also removed all my rewrite content and left my file handling/cache content in to make sure that it is not a rewrite issue but the problem still persists. Simply put when I have only “AddType x-httpd-php53 .php” in my .htaccess file – everything fine. When my file begins:

    AddType x-httpd-php53 .php
options +Includes

#compress text, html, javascript, css, xml etc:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/htm
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterbyType DEFLATE image/ico
AddOutputFilterbyType DEFLATE image/gif
AddOutputFilterbyType DEFLATE image/jpg
AddOutputFilterbyType DEFLATE image/jpeg
AddOutputFilterbyType DEFLATE image/png

# Enable caching headers
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 4 hours"
ExpiresByType application/javascript A900
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A900
ExpiresByType text/javascript A2592000
ExpiresByType text/html M604800
ExpiresByType text/xml A90
ExpiresByType text/css A2592000
ExpiresByType text/plain A2592000
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType image/bmp A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A3600

# Activate SSI for HTML and or SHTML file types
AddType text/html .html
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .htm

    then the directory browsing occurs. Is it something wrong with the order of commands (I have tried placing the php handler with the others).

    thanks for taking the time!

    Regards

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • Brad Markle

    (@imh_brad)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi kg0279. The line you are referring to:

    AddType x-httpd-php53 .php

    … is telling the server that any file that ends in .php should be handled by php 5.3. Most likely your host has this as they have multiple versions of PHP running on the server, so they are telling your php scripts to run with php version 5.3 (instead of 5.2 for example).

    The following line:

    options +Includes

    … tells the server that if there is no directory index, then to simply list all of the files in the directory.

    Most servers will have index.php set as a file to load by default. It sounds like your server may not have this however. Try adding the following line to your .htaccess:

    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php

    … this will tell the server to try to load index.html first. If that file does not exist, it should try index.htm. Finally, if index.htm is not here, look for and load index.php if the file exists. It sounds like your server is simply not looking for index.php.

    I hope this helps! Let me know if it doesn’t however.

    Thread Starter kg0279

    (@kg0279)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Brad,
    thanks for the feedback. I had already checked the server default page entries and index.php was included. However, I included the DirectoryIndex directive that you suggested anyway and there was an effect in that the index.php page was now called but it rendered the source code of the page rather than running script….then I realised I hadn’t cleared the cache!

    The DirectoryIndex worked thanks but I’ll still go back to the ISP about the server setup.

    Best regards

    Kevin

    Brad Markle

    (@imh_brad)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Kevin, glad to hear you’re making some progress! Be sure to keep us updated, hopefully everything will get sorted out soon if not already.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘htaccess problem – WP not rendering’ is closed to new replies.