If you are worried about it and you already modified the rules, disable the modified rules and reimport the .htaccess file. Now test your app, if everything works, delete the disabled rules and you’re ready to go. If it doesn’t work for you, at least your no worse off than you were before.

I’ve been using the web.config out of this article:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/1533/A-Note-on-mod_rewrite

Please any suggestions…

I can’t get the css loaded

In code (cakePhp):
css(’style’)); ?>

Translated in HTML by cakePHP:

But somehow the url_rewrite does not translate the ‘/css/style.css’ to app/webroot/css/

I’ve tried a rewrite rule for this but without any luck:
RewriteRule ^/(img|css|files|js)(.*)$ /{1}{2}

Suggestions?

I’m not clear on what I’m supposed to change… here’s what I have:

In /app/webroot my .htaccess file is now:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

AddType application/x-javascript .js
AddType text/css .css

In /app the .htaccess file is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ / [L]
RewriteRule (.*) /$1 [L]

and in / .htaccess is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ /app/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) /app/$1 [L]

Do those look right? Thanks!

This is really easy to fix, but can obviously drive you nuts if overlooked.

To disable static compression,
In IIS select the site you have cake installed in (same place you are doing all the rewrite rules).
open Compression, and make sure neither check box is checked, then click apply.

-You might have to restart your website for the changes to occur.

(?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?)
(configuration)
(system.webServer)
(rewrite)
(rules)
(rule name=”Imported Rule 1″ stopProcessing=”true”)
(match url=”^$” ignoreCase=”false” /)
(action type=”Rewrite” url=”app/webroot/” /)
(/rule)
(rule name=”Imported Rule 2″ stopProcessing=”true”)
(match url=”(.*)” ignoreCase=”false” /)
(action type=”Rewrite” url=”app/webroot/{R:1}” /)
(/rule)
(rule name=”Imported Rule 3″ stopProcessing=”true”)
(match url=”^$” ignoreCase=”false” /)
(action type=”Rewrite” url=”webroot/” /)
(/rule)
(rule name=”Imported Rule 4″ stopProcessing=”true”)
(match url=”(.*)” ignoreCase=”false” /)
(action type=”Rewrite” url=”webroot/{R:1}” /)
(/rule)
(rule name=”Imported Rule 5″ stopProcessing=”true”)
(match url=”^(.*)$” ignoreCase=”false” /)
(conditions logicalGrouping=”MatchAll”)
(add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsDirectory” negate=”true” pattern=”" ignoreCase=”false” /)
(add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsFile” negate=”true” pattern=”" ignoreCase=”false” /)
(/conditions)
(action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php?url={R:1}” appendQueryString=”true” /)
(/rule)
(/rules)
(/rewrite)
(/system.webServer)
(/configuration)

However when I import the 3 .htaccess files in the order as you have written I get 5 Imported rules ( two starting with app/webroot/ and two with webroot/ and on with index.php?).

If I do not edit the rules (deleting the ‘webroot’ or ‘app/webroot’) then on the initial cakePHP page the CSS file is loaded and it all looks normal, however follwing the tutorial as link and attempting through several others (such as http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/tutorials/os-php-cake1/index.html) gives me a 404 error when viewing somthing like http://localhost/users/register .

Deleting the ‘webroot’ and ‘app/webroot’ from the rewrite rules does not help and stops CSS from loading on the default page also.

Here is the created web.config as imported from a current default cakePHP install on IIS 7

Any help would be apreciated.

I download Cakephp 1.2.6 ver..and after Setting up Rewriting Rules,
I find that paths have 5 rules…but in your example only have four rules..What’s wrong ?