mod_rewrite
will allow us to rewrite the requested URLs on the fly, which will help us build an application with clean URLs. The rewriting itself is handled in another Apache configuration file called .htaccess
, which we will touch on in Chapter 4, Starting Your Application. In the following section, we'll configure Apache, so that mod_rewrite
is enabled.
1. Use Finder to navigate to the following folder:
/etc/apache2
.2. Locate and open a file named
httpd.conf
in your text editor.3. Look through the file, and find this line (it should be line
114):
#LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
4. Uncomment the line by removing the hash (#) symbol. It's possible that your system is already configured to enable
mod_rewrite
. Regardless, make sure it matches the following code:LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
5. Look through the file, and find this chunk of code (it should go from line
178-183):
<Directory...