RESTful API & Friendly URL htaccess

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visvoer Reply #1, 11 years, 8 months ago
I followed the guide for setting up the Restful api in modx 2.3.2 descibed in the following manual:
http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/developing-in-modx/advanced-development/developing-rest-servers

But i have already a website set up with friendly url's enabled.
So the htaccess file contains
```
# The Friendly URLs part
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
```
But when i add the needed tags for the rest api
```
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ rest/index.php?_rest=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ rest/index.php [QSA,NC,L]
```
my site stops working...

Can somebody help me and provide me with a working htaccess file so that my friendly url's keep working but my www.website.com/rest/ give the rest results

Much appreciated because i am stuck on this part for a whole day
- 16 Posts
Josh Tambunga Reply #2, 11 years, 8 months ago
If your REST API is going to be on the same domain/subdomain as your regular site, you'll want to access your API through a subfolder.

Your users would access your API with a URL like "website.com/rest/items/1"

To do this you'll want to create an .htaccess file in your /rest folder and change it to be
```
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?_rest=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,NC,L]
```