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Sep 09.2008

Hey

I am on a Shared Hosting and my host does not have “URL Rewriting” enabled.

Is there anyway I can enable it for my site? How?

Thanx

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@jim_kellerSep 09.2008 — most likely, your host will have to enable Apache's mod_rewrite. If you're running on Windows, you may be out of luck, although there are alternatives for IIS as well.

You can try to enable mod_rewrite yourself by following these steps:

  • 1. create a file called .htaccess (note the dot at the beginning) on your webserver, and put the following in it:


    • RewriteEngine On

    RewriteRule ^rewritetest/?$ http://www.google.com

    then trying going to www.yoursite.com/rewritetest

    if it redirects you to google, then mod_rewrite is enabled and you can start adding custom rules.
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    @phantom007authorSep 10.2008 — That helped.

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