make it work for virtualhost

[yanliu]

The current .htaccess config allows only one-level access. For example, index.php, Rest.php, and .htacess can't be under /var/www/myweb/rest/, nor can they be in a directory other than /var/www/. The latter is often the case for virtualhost configurations.

An easy fix is to add RewriteBase directive to .htaccess or in virtualhost config in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. An example of virtualhost url is as below:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>

... ...

Alias /wsrest/ "/opt/test/rest/examples/"
<Directory /opt/test/rest/examples/>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wsrest/

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?RESTurl=$1 [QSA,NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,NC,L]
</Directory>

By default, RewriteBase points to /var/www, but above setting lets Apache2 know it should use alias /wsrest/, instead of physical location /var/www.

Hope it helps.

[deepeshmalviya]

Thanks for bringing it up, at first I was slight confused about what you wrote but then I got it. Summarizing for others, these instructions will help, when you don't want to keep the simple-rest library into the path of your document root and that time you would be required to make changes to your VirtualHost.