Another htaccess problem

[bserviss]

Hi All,

I'm having a small problem that looks to be centered around the htaccess file.

I can't get a frontend login. After searching the forum, checking the absolute path and verifying the write permissions nothing jumps out at me.

My host doesn't automatically load an index.php file so I used htaccess to redirect to index.php for index.html requests.

Using the htaccess provided with Mambo (with the redirect) did get the login to work once. At which point I couldn't log the user back out again.

Any ideas?

Here is the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

#  Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL 
#  is not directly related to physical file paths.
#  Update YourMamboDirectory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase /YourMamboDirectory

#
#  Rules
#

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) index3.php
RewriteRule ^component/(.*) index3.php
RewriteRule ^mos/(.*) index3.php


Redirect /index.html http://faat-greensboro.org/index.php

[Elpie]

In your htaccess file your index.php will be looping around in a never-ending circle. The reason for this is that Apache looks for index and home files in a certain order, depending on how the server is set up. In your case, your site is loading index.html as the default. Your htaccess redirects this to index.php which then sends it back to index.html, which sends it... well, you get the picture

Remove that redirect and replace it with this, it should solve your problem:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

This switches the order of the index files around so that index.php loads everytime an index page is called and index.html only loads if index.php does not exist.

Hope this helps

[bserviss]

Thank you Elpie, that worked perfectly!

I have learned so much with Mambo already and not just about content management.

Thanks again