mod-rewrite and htaccess tester.

====== Linux Apache2 ====== ===== Hide server info ===== in httpd.comf:-


# don't show server tokens
ServerTokens Prod

ServerSignature Off

This shows for the header info:-


% curl --head www.rainsbrook.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:57:11 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:26:03 GMT
ETag: "36c-5eacb70120add"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 876
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

===== mod-rewrite test ===== Rewrites can ether be controlled from the main apache.conf or from a .htaccess file in the web root. Testing can be done with the files below (from BOLT CRM):-


.htaccess


    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^.*$ htaccess_tester.html

Explaination... '' ^.*$ '' is anchored to the start of a line with ^, the dot matches any character and the * wildcards any number of matches up to the line end denoted by $, so this redirects any request to the url following (htaccess_tester.html).


htaccess_tester.html




    
    mod-rewrite and htaccess tester.



If you can see this, you have been rewritten correctly.