NEW ERROR: RewriteEngine not allowed here

[till]

This tutorial is for a private server and not ispconfig or for a hosting enviroment. As long as you are the only user, then AllowOverride all is fine.

[Ovidiu]

Originally Posted by till

Please compare the vhost file with a working vhost file from another site and also compare the .htaccess file from this vhost with a .htaccess file from a working installation on the same server.

ok, here is the .htaccess from a not-working site:

# preventing hotlinking
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*)?domain1.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp)$ [F,NC]

Redirect 301 /category/blog http://domain1.com/

# BEGIN WPSuperCache
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</IfModule>

# END WPSuperCache

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

here is a .htaccess from a working site:

# preventing hotlinking
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*)?domain2.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp)$ [F,NC]

# BEGIN WPSuperCache

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(wordpress|comment_author_|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}_%{SERVER_PORT}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}_%{SERVER_PORT}/$1/index.html.gz [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(wordpress|comment_author_|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}_%{SERVER_PORT}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}_%{SERVER_PORT}/$1/index.html [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(wordpress|comment_author_|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}_%{SERVER_PORT}/$1/index.html.gz.wip -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}_%{SERVER_PORT}/$1/index.html.gz.wip [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(wordpress|comment_author_|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}_%{SERVER_PORT}/$1/index.html.wip -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}_%{SERVER_PORT}/$1/index.html.wip [L]
</IfModule>

# END WPSuperCache

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?sitemap.xml wp-content/sitemap.php [L]

#avatar rule
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?avatar/(.*) wp-content/avatar.php?file=$2 [L]

#RewriteRule ^wp-content/blogs.dir/(\d+)/themes/(.*) wp-content/blogs.dir/$1/themes/$2 [L]

#google sitemap verification
RewriteRule ^google(.*).html googleverifyfile.html

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

# END WordPress

there are some differences but the first one is wordpress the second one is wpmu, still its only redirect and rewrites.

Now a non working vhost file:

<Directory /var/www/domain1.com>
    AllowOverride None
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/clients/client1/web7/web
    ServerName domain1.com
    ServerAlias www.domain1.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@domain1.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/domain1.com/error.log

    <Directory /var/www/domain1.com/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    <Directory /var/www/clients/client1/web7/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    # suphp enabled
    <Directory /var/www/clients/client1/web7/web>
        suPHP_Engine on
        # suPHP_UserGroup web7 client1
        AddHandler x-httpd-suphp .php .php3 .php4 .php5
        suPHP_AddHandler x-httpd-suphp
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

and here is a working vhost:

<Directory /var/www/domain2.com>
    AllowOverride None
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
      DocumentRoot /var/www/domain2.com/web
    ServerName domain2.com
    ServerAlias *.domain2.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@domain2.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/domain2.com/error.log


    <Directory /var/www/domain2.com/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    <Directory /var/www/clients/client1/web9/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    # suexec enabled
    SuexecUserGroup web9 client1
    # php as fast-cgi enabled
    <Directory /var/www/domain2.com/web>
        AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php3 .php4 .php5
        FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web9/.php-fcgi-starter .php
        Options +ExecCGI
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

[Ovidiu]

I figured out my problem, had nothing to do with ispconfig after all.

it seems the wordpress built in updater, sets file permissions wrong. Must check what they are set to, but it breaks suPhp somehow.

If I use plugin central wordpress plugin for updating all seems fine :-)