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Runway rewrite issue in preproduction environment

Hi,

It seems that the rewrite rules doesn't work even though mod_rewrite is enabled on the server. I can access the perch admin though. The files are at the root /public_html (the domain points to https://domain.com/~web/). When I have the following rules in place in .htaccess, I get a page not found error.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~web/perch
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* /~web/perch/core/runway/start.php [L]

When I have the following rule in place, it only shows me the directory of the /public_html files

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~web/perch
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /~web/perch/core/runway/start.php [L]

I guess it's more of a server issue than perch issue but I wonder if you have any hints on this?

In config.php:

define('PERCH_LOGINPATH', '/~web/perch');
define("PERCH_DB_USERNAME", 'blabla');
define("PERCH_DB_PASSWORD", 'blabla');
define("PERCH_DB_SERVER", "localhost");
define("PERCH_DB_DATABASE", "web_perch");
define('PERCH_SITEPATH', '/public_html');

Here's the diagnostic:

PERCH INFORMATION

Perch Runway: 2.8.32
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (2.8.32), assets (2.8.32), categories (2.8.32), collection_1 (2.8.32), collection_2 (2.8.32), perch_forms (1.8.3), collection_3 (2.8.32), perch_members (1.4), perch_podcasts (1.2)
DB driver: PDO
DB tables: perch2_backup_plans (0), perch2_backup_resources (0), perch2_backup_runs (0), perch2_categories (0), perch2_category_counts (0), perch2_category_sets (0), perch2_collection_index (908), perch2_collection_items (117), perch2_collection_revisions (25), perch2_collections (3), perch2_content_index (681), perch2_content_items (242), perch2_content_regions (93), perch2_forms (2), perch2_forms_responses (3), perch2_members (3), perch2_members_forms (0), perch2_members_member_tags (5), perch2_members_sessions (0), perch2_members_tags (11), perch2_navigation (1), perch2_navigation_pages (15), perch2_page_routes (17), perch2_page_templates (13), perch2_pages (64), perch2_podcasts (2), perch2_podcasts_downloads (7918), perch2_podcasts_episodes (5), perch2_resource_log (1021), perch2_resource_tags (0), perch2_resources (146), perch2_resources_to_tags (0), perch2_settings (20), perch2_user_passwords (0), perch2_user_privileges (37), perch2_user_role_privileges (40), perch2_user_roles (4), perch2_users (5)
Users: 5
App runtimes:
<?php
    $apps_list = array(
        'content', 
        'categories',
        'perch_members',
        'perch_forms',
        'perch_podcasts'
    );
Editor plug-ins: redactor, markitup
H1: 664ab770f399979a4050216777bd19fb
L1: 0617f3d9128331f263d55394cb6dd288
F1: 2edba60ed1f613d6dd804feb202456a2
headerColour: #000000
content_singlePageEdit: 1
helpURL:
siteURL: /
hideBranding: 1
content_collapseList: 1
lang: en-gb
update_2.8.18: done
headerScheme: dark
update_runway_2.8.18: done
latest_version: 2.8.15
on_sale_version: 2.8.34
perch_members_update: 1.4
perch_members_login_page: /members/login.php?r={returnURL}
dashboard: 0
hide_pwd_reset: 0
content_hideNonEditableRegions: 1
content_frontend_edit: 0
logoPath: /perch/resources/wef.png
update_runway_2.8.32: done
PERCH_DEVELOPMENT: 10
PERCH_STAGING: 50
PERCH_PRODUCTION: 100
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /~web/perch
PERCH_DB_USERNAME: web
PERCH_DB_SERVER: localhost
PERCH_DB_DATABASE: web_perch
PERCH_SITEPATH: /public_html
PERCH_DB_PREFIX: perch2_
PERCH_EMAIL_FROM: ewwfe@geee.com
PERCH_EMAIL_FROM_NAME: ewfwwef
PERCH_PATH: /home/web/public_html/perch
PERCH_CORE: /home/web/public_html/perch/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /home/web/public_html/perch/resources
PERCH_RESPATH: /~web/perch/resources
PERCH_HTML5: 1
PERCH_TZ: UTC
PERCH_RUNWAY: 1
PERCH_ERROR_MODE: DIE
PERCH_DATE_LONG: %d %B %Y
PERCH_DATE_SHORT: %d %b %Y
PERCH_TIME_SHORT: %H:%M
PERCH_TIME_LONG: %H:%M:%S
PERCH_RUNWAY_ROUTED:
PERCH_STRONG_PASSWORDS:
PERCH_DEBUG:
PERCH_PREVIEW_ARG: preview
PERCH_TEMPLATE_PATH: /home/web/public_html/perch/templates
PERCH_DEFAULT_DOC: index.php
PERCH_DEFAULT_EXT: .php
PERCH_PRODUCTION_MODE: 100
PERCH_RWD:
PERCH_HTML_ENTITIES:
PERCH_SSL:
PERCH_STRIPSLASHES:
PERCH_PROGRESSIVE_FLUSH: 1
PERCH_PARANOID:
PERCH_FORCE_SECURE_COOKIES:
PERCH_PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH: 6
PERCH_MAX_FAILED_LOGINS: 10
PERCH_AUTH_LOCKOUT_DURATION: 1 HOUR
PERCH_VERIFY_UPLOADS:
PERCH_AUTH_PLUGIN:
PERCH_DB_CHARSET: utf8
PERCH_DB_PORT:
PERCH_DB_SOCKET:
PERCH_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS: 20
HOSTING SETTINGS

PHP: 7.0.15
Zend: 3.0.0
OS: Linux
SAPI: cgi-fcgi
Safe mode: not detected
MySQL client: mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: b5c5906d452ec590732a93b051f3827e02749b83 $
MySQL server: 5.5.5-10.0.29-MariaDB
Free disk space: 102.44 GB
Extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, pcntl, readline, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, cgi-fcgi, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dba, dom, enchant, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, iconv, imap, intl, json, ldap, exif, mcrypt, mysqlnd, odbc, PDO, pgsql, Phar, posix, pspell, shmop, SimpleXML, snmp, soap, sockets, sqlite3, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, xml, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, mysqli, pdo_mysql, PDO_ODBC, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, wddx, xmlreader, xmlrpc
GD: Yes
ImageMagick: No
PHP max upload size: 2M
PHP max form post size: 8M
PHP memory limit: 32M
Total max uploadable file size: 2M
Resource folder writeable: Yes
Session timeout: 24 minutes
Native JSON: Yes
Filter functions: Yes
Transliteration functions: Yes
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/web/public_html
CONTEXT_PREFIX: /~web
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate, sdch
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.6
HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive
HTTP_COOKIE: timezone=Asia/Shanghai; cmsa=1; PHPSESSID=ljdn5725b155a5bclvsrus8l65
HTTP_HOST: v188069.serveradd.com
HTTP_REFERER: https://v188069.serveradd.com/~web/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
HTTP_UPGRADE_INSECURE_REQUESTS: 1
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.95 Safari/537.36
PATH: /bin:/usr/bin
QUERY_STRING: extended
REDIRECT_STATUS: 200
REMOTE_ADDR: 120.50.43.137
REMOTE_PORT: 51522
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
REQUEST_SCHEME: http
REQUEST_URI: /~web/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/?extended
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/web/public_html/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
SCRIPT_NAME: /~web/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
SCRIPT_URI: https://v188069.serveradd.com/~web/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_URL: /~web/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
SERVER_ADDR: 103.11.188.69
SERVER_ADMIN: wefewf@efw.com
SERVER_NAME: v188069.serveradd.com
SERVER_PORT: 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache
UNIQUE_ID: WIrDjZIhtvs-Unc2@KG0aAAAAIY
PHP_SELF: /~web/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT: 1485489037.6623
REQUEST_TIME: 1485489037
argc: 1

Thanks.
Robin Pick

Robin Pick 5 points

  • 4 years ago
Duncan Revell

Duncan Revell 78 points
Registered Developer

4 years ago

It looks to me as if any web paths shouldn't have ~web in it, so remove it from your rewrite rules.

See if that helps.
Robin Pick

Robin Pick 5 points

4 years ago

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for chipping in. I have removed the /~web path from the rewrite rules. I can still login to Perch so I guess these weren't useful but I still can't see the pages. When I preview any page from Perch admin, it creates such url: https://domain.com/mypage and it throws 404.

Strange.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

If you turn on debug, what does it output for that 404 page?
Duncan Revell

Duncan Revell 78 points
Registered Developer

4 years ago

I think some of your other paths are wrong - the login path should just be /perch and your site path should be /home/web/public_html
Robin Pick

Robin Pick 5 points

4 years ago

Hi Drew,

It's a generic 404 from host so it would go to debug. Could /~web create the problem with the routing? Is there anything special I should do in that context? What's strange is that if I browser without the /~web it brings me to "sorry, contact the host page".

Easiest may be to ask the host to allow me to write at the root?
Robin Pick

Robin Pick 5 points

4 years ago

Duncan Revell said:

I think some of your other paths are wrong - the login path should just be /perch and your site path should be /home/web/public_html

Hi Duncan,

For the login path, if I specify /perch, I can't login to Perch :/
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

You need to completely get rid of this ~web thing.
Duncan Revell

Duncan Revell 78 points
Registered Developer

4 years ago

It might be easier to install and start again...

As Drew says, the ~web is the issue.

For reference, ~web is a shortcut for /home/web - your current config has a mix of both. The file path to the root of your website is /home/web/public_html, the web path of the root of your website is just / and therefore the web path to the perch login should be /perch
Robin Pick

Robin Pick 5 points

4 years ago

Ok, thanks for the advices. I will get the hosts to remove that thing.

Cheers,
Duncan Revell

Duncan Revell 78 points
Registered Developer

4 years ago

I don't think the host needs to (the ~web shortcut/syntax is a built-in part of Linux) - it's the fact that (I'm guessing) during the Perch install, you typed it in as on elf the paths. Either edit your config files and remove any reference to ~web or go through the install process again and don't enter ~web anywhere....!
Robin Pick

Robin Pick 5 points

4 years ago

Duncan Revell said:

I don't think the host needs to (the ~web shortcut/syntax is a built-in part of Linux) - it's the fact that (I'm guessing) during the Perch install, you typed it in as on elf the paths. Either edit your config files and remove any reference to ~web or go through the install process again and don't enter ~web anywhere....!

Thanks Drew and Duncan. It's now fixed.
Duncan Revell

Duncan Revell 78 points
Registered Developer

4 years ago

Not a problem - I'm not sure what I meant by "typed it in as on elf the paths" up there, but it doesn't seem to have impeded you...!