Clean Urls Suddenly Not Working - No Input File Specified

[d3vkit]

I've been using apache and php to create clean urls for a while, and suddenly the other day it just stopped working. My host is godaddy.com and I think this might be the source of my trouble, but I'm not sure what exactly that trouble is. Here is my .htaccess file:

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4
 
<FilesMatch "^comic$|^post$|^characters$|^extras$">
    ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
 

I have a vague understanding of how this works (it was a cut and paste on my part I'm sorry to say - this just seems to go over my head every time I try to get it, and before now, it simply worked). From what I know of it, it looks for the words comic, post, characters, or extras, and adds .php to the end of them internally so it can be recognized as a valid page. My php page explodes the URL (which is in the form of, say, sitename.com/folder/comic/1), and puts that in an array (so 1, which is the comic_id, would be array[3]). I am fairly certain the php end of things is fine, and that it's apache/.htaccess giving me trouble since I simply get the message "No input file specified." when I try to use a clean url (index pages load fine).

This was working fine as early as last week (I think - I've been pretty busy lately), but is suddenly not.

Anyone see where my mistake is, or is this something godaddy may have changed on their end that's making this not work?

[d3vkit]

I've decided to scrap my previous method and try my hand at actual mod_rewrites - but am running into the same issue.

RewriteRule ^http://www.site.com/directory/fake_dir/([0-9]+)/$ http://www.site.com/directory/index.php?id=$1
 

From what I understand, this ought to take anything such as site.com/dir/fake_dir/1 and make it site.com/dir/index.php?id=1, but I'm still get a no input file specified error. My host, godaddy, runs PHP as CGI and not a module, maybe that's the problem? It specifically says in help:

For security reasons, we run PHP as a CGI and not as a module. Because of this and the version of Apache we run (1.3.3), you cannot use extensionless PHP files on your Web site without employing a tool like mod_rewrite.

But I AM using mod_rewrite. It seems it's just not seeing the fake_dir (since it doesn't exist) - I was hoping it would simply try to find what I was mod_rewriting to. I'm so new to this, it's hard to tell if I'm doing things right. Any suggestions?

[d3vkit]

Well, I figured it out, and thought I'd share the little things I had done wrong just in case this comes up in a Google search or something.

1. I upgraded my hosting to Deluxe Linux with multiple hosting, so I can seamlessly use folders in my root and direct my different domains to those folders. I realized later on that .htaccess will take care of this with a little work, but I suppose the extra $3 a month is worth making it easy.

2. I had multiple .htaccess files (this one is pretty stupid). I normally will take an old file and simply put .OLD on it, so it doesn't register but I don't have to delete in and I can just upload my new file. I think this messed things up since .htaccess starts with a period. This probably won't come up for anyone but me :P

3. I was trying to have fake directory's but I had FILES with those directory names - such as site.com/fake_dir/id, and I had a file called fake_dir.php. It was trying to use that, not sure why. (I had previously been using a different method which involved having these files with includes of the index. They were useless after I figured out how to do actual mod_rewrite.)

After fixing each of these things, I have mod_rewrite working great, and am really happy with the level of control I have now.

[jkspin]

Hi! I have deluxe hosting with GoDaddy, and have not been able to get clean urls working on any of my 'sub' sites (in folders in root). If you have had success I would really appreciate knowing how you have got it to work. I've tried lots of different .htaccess permutations with no success so far.

Thanks, John S.