First hurdle with mod_rewrite...

[Qure]

Hello there,

I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and Apache - I recently needed to set these up to work on a website. I'm trying to mirror the server's set up so I can work on it locally.

Most things have been going fine, but one thing I still haven't been able to work out is how to enable mod_rewrite.

I've been following the instructions on Apache's site for configuring, making and installing Apache 2.0 from source, and according to the documentation, I should just have to specify "--enable-rewrite" when I run the ./configure command. I get a lot of debug out in the terminal as this happens, and it clearly states that mod_rewrite = yes.

However, when I try to start the server, I get:
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: mod_rewrite.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryI don't understand why it isn't there?

I've followed many different websites I've found on how to enable this module manually, but all without success... can anyone point out what I did wrong with the above?

Thanks very much

[LepeKaname]

Sorry, but why are you trying to compile apache?

You just need to install apache2 and set a symlink:

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
sudo ln -s ../mods-available/rewrite.load .
sudo apachectl restart


That's all you need to do to use mod-rewrite

[Qure]

A few reasons - I'm mirroring our web server's set-up as closely as possible, which involves installing the exact same version of Apache. I believe installing apache2 through the package manager gets Apache 2.2, I need Apache 2.0.

Also, I will be integrating with Resin which recommends you compile/install yourself so that the files aren't all over the place. I don't think Resin works with Apache 2.2 either, could be wrong on that.

Any advice on getting mod_rewrite to work when installing Apache this way?

[LepeKaname]

Follow this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1183268

You can search for apache 2.0 in older repositories...