apache_get_modules() solution

[zubair1]

Hello,

I am using mod_rewrite in one of my scripts, and needed to detect if the mod_rewrite module is loaded.

I was using apache_get_modules() before but after switching to a new host, i noticed that its disabled on the server and they won't enable it either.

But i 100% that mod_rewrite is enabled, but no way to know via my script since it used to rely on that function.

I was wondering if someone knows of any other ways to detect if mod_rewrite is enabled?

I would really appreciate any help :)

Regards,

[Atli]

Hey.

You could always just create a unique rewrite rule that - if mod_rewrite is enabled - would redirect you to somewhere (an empty text file, for example). Then you would just use get_headers() on the URL and see if it returns 200 or 404 as the HTTP response (fist element of the return array).

[zubair1]

Thanks for the reply, that's an awesome idea at least for second choice.

is it possible for you to provide me with some code to get me started?

Regards,

[Markus]

Create your rewrite-rule. Something like:

RewriteRule ^/path/to/rewrite$ /rewrite/to 
 

Then in your PHP script that needs to know whether the rewrite engine is working, call get_headers() on that URL:

$headers = get_headers("http://yoursite/path/to/rewrite");
 
if ($headers[0] == '404') 
    $rewrite_engine_enabled = false;
 

Something like that.