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Hi Hugo, i know it's dummy to ask for this every time but i can't figure it out. PHPBB is working perfect until i choose to enable the url rewrite option. I need your help with that. Anytime you can, make the toolkit for this.

The .htaccess file contains:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

#
# Uncomment the statement below if URL rewriting doesn't
# work properly. If you installed phpBB in a subdirectory
# of your site, properly set the argument for the statement.
# e.g.: if your domain is test.com and you installed phpBB
# in http://www.test.com/phpBB/index.php you have to set
# the statement RewriteBase /phpBB/
#
#RewriteBase /

#
# Uncomment the statement below if you want to make use of
# HTTP authentication and it does not already work.
# This could be required if you are for example using PHP via Apache CGI.
#
#RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]

#
# The following 3 lines will rewrite URLs passed through the front controller
# to not require app.php in the actual URL. In other words, a controller is
# by default accessed at /app.php/my/controller, but can also be accessed at
# /my/controller
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]

#
# If symbolic links are not already being followed,
# uncomment the line below.
# http://anothersysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/mod_rewrite-forbidden-403-with-apache-228/
#
#Options +FollowSymLinks
</IfModule>

# With Apache 2.4 the "Order, Deny" syntax has been deprecated and moved from
# module mod_authz_host to a new module called mod_access_compat (which may be
# disabled) and a new "Require" syntax has been introduced to mod_authz_host.
# We could just conditionally provide both versions, but unfortunately Apache
# does not explicitly tell us its version if the module mod_version is not
# available. In this case, we check for the availability of module
# mod_authz_core (which should be on 2.4 or higher only) as a best guess.
<IfModule mod_version.c>
	<IfVersion < 2.4>
		<Files "config.php">
			Order Allow,Deny
			Deny from All
		</Files>
		<Files "common.php">
			Order Allow,Deny
			Deny from All
		</Files>
	</IfVersion>
	<IfVersion >= 2.4>
		<Files "config.php">
			Require all denied
		</Files>
		<Files "common.php">
			Require all denied
		</Files>
	</IfVersion>
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_version.c>
	<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
		<Files "config.php">
			Order Allow,Deny
			Deny from All
		</Files>
		<Files "common.php">
			Order Allow,Deny
			Deny from All
		</Files>
	</IfModule>
	<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
		<Files "config.php">
			Require all denied
		</Files>
		<Files "common.php">
			Require all denied
		</Files>
	</IfModule>
</IfModule>

Regards

How about this:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = phpBB
  RequestURI exists Return
  Match [^?]*(\?.*)? Rewrite /app.php$1
}

Hi Hugo and thank you very much. It looks that it works. In case that i have an issue i will update you. Please add this toolkit to the Toolkit collection you have here.

Regards

Hey... that was my idea!!

Also i must mention that there is an issue with PHPBB and Hiawatha(maybe it is only to my Hiawatha webserver and caused from my mistake). When i add an extension to PHPBB it open it in address like https://domain.tld/extension, in my hiawatha webserver this returns as result an error page cause hiawatha do not open url's without extension. I notice the same to another script too. Anyway, i manage this by adding NoExtensionAs = php , to my virtual host configuration.

And the /extension points to an actual file on disk? And requests for such extensions should not be handled via /app.php?

The extension points to /rules(rules is the extension i add), without the toolkit it was returning an error page, after the toolkit added it works correctly even without the "NoExtensionAs = php" in virtual host conf.

Do you allow me to post the url where i run the phpbb ?

Sure. Just don't add too much URL's in one post. Otherwise it is seen as spam.

The url is https://phpbb.hiawatha.ovh/.
The phpbb rewrite is not so search engine friendly or i mess something there:) ,please try to check the url's of the first category , first post and any other on the forum. Most times it returns <filename>.php and nothing like domain.tld/forum/category/post .
It gives me understand that the rewrite is done only to avoid of app.php on url.

I don't receive the account activation e-mail from your forum.

Ofcourse you not. Because i am so brilliant that i have not start the mail server. Also i am so paranoid that i block all tcp connections to my server except ports : 21,80,443. And a dozen IP's(update server, monitor services, etc)
Give me a couple minutes to fix that.

I am sorry for all this. I just verify your account.

I keep getting the error 'The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again'. Seems you have some work to do first.

Yes Hugo, this is true. There is needed much more work on the server to make it work correctly 100%.

Maybe it was the phpbb permission settings. I give you full permissions.