Rewrite & Expression Engine & An Hosting

Before I moved to AN Hosting as my hosting provider I used (based on Expression Engine documentation) the following code in my .htaccess file to remove the "index.php" from the URL.



This however does not work with my new provider, AN Hosting. I have pleaded with them to help, but they have done little. They have told me that their servers are configured to run as CGI process which is different than my previous provider. However, I'm not an Apache guru so I'm not sure what to do. More details of my issue: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/65546/.

I'll send beer money or whatever if someone helps me with this very frustrating problem! ;)

check that out.. it should work

I have written a post about LG .htaccess Generator over on my web development blog. It explains the default rules of the extension which your readers might find useful.

Bascially the ExpressionEngine extension uses the "include" method for removing the index.php and automatically adds the required template groups and pages.

On a related note, I also recently encountered an issue with query strings on the site index, specifically Campaign Monitors outgoing email links. I wrote a fairly detailed post about it titled Using URL rewrites to make ExpressionEngine, Campaign Monitor & Google Analytics play nice.

.htaccess is indeed a very tricky subject that causes lots and lots of headaches. Hopefully my posts will help you out. Oh and i drink Pilsner :p

Cheers Leevi