https://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=4141 https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24993 letter to the support guys and then to the sales department and if i don't get any result, i could use some hosting suggestions. i need a quick european server at a reasonable price

@OpenGeek- what's you offer ]]> chacho Apr 15, 2005, 03:13 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24993 https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24992 hi,
i just received an email from the support team of the hosting company i'm using, and they don't want to enable mod_rewrite. is it actually difficult to enable it for a certain domain only? and can it be done any other way? thanx
You might consider some other hosting services that enable standard features. It's very difficult to imagine a good reason for not including mod_rewrite functionality on a shared Apache server, but perhaps they believe it is a resource hog (only if users use it incorrectly).

I host a ton of WordPress and Eto/MODx sites through two different hosting services that I provide, making generous use of mod-rewrite rules and I couldn't live without the capability personally... :roll:

Feel free to contact me if you need a new host. (a swelling of shame for promoting my own services in these forums comes over me)]]> opengeek Apr 15, 2005, 01:09 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24992 https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24991
You can turn the mod_rewrite engine on and off at either a VirtualHost level or .htaccess level.

I don't know of any other way to do mod_rewrite if the host won't enable it for you. About the only thing I can think of would be to set your 404 file as a custom php script that would check the requested url against the aliases in the database and redirect appropriately. But that is a REALLY UGLY way of getting things done and the address bar still wouln't show the alias.

You could also set up a bunch of redirects in your .htaccess but that would be a maintenance nightmare, and again no human friendly urls in the address bar.]]> aNoble Apr 15, 2005, 12:46 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24991 https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24990 rethrash Apr 15, 2005, 12:36 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24990 https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24989 i just received an email from the support team of the hosting company i'm using, and they don't want to enable mod_rewrite. is it actually difficult to enable it for a certain domain only? and can it be done any other way? thanx]]> chacho Apr 15, 2005, 11:30 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/4141/mod-rewrite#dis-post-24989