March 11, 2008
1and1 mod_rewrite suddenly doesn't work
This morning I discovered that the mod_rewrite configs that I'd setup on my uncontrolled airspace website, and which have been working for over a year, were no longer working.
It's been over 12 hours with no response from my hosting service 1and1.com's support people.
I've been searching the web all day for others with this problem. Just now I found this note from a user who had a similar problem 3 years ago.
...my .htaccess was giving a lot of 404 errors, and none of the mod_rewrite rules were working. It turns out that 1and1 (without telling me) enabled the apache Multiviews setting, which plays havoc with the rewrite rules... The solution? Disabling MultiViews in this directory by adding this line to the .htaccess file:Options -MultiViews
I added that line to my htaccess file, and it started working again immediately.
I think the time is coming to leave 1and1.com behind.