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I’ve been reading a lot of posts on the Magento forum about installation troubles, specifically with mod_rewrite (htaccess) and the MySQLi and PDO_MySQL extensions for PHP. As mentioned in our Magento installation guide, Crucial’s Split-Shared hosting is fully compatible with Magento.

Regarding the htaccess issues, try using this modified version that was used on our install:

  1. Options +FollowSymLinks
  3. RewriteEngine On
  5. RewriteBase /magento/
  7. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media/
  8. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/skin/
  9. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/js/
  10. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/var/
  12. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  13. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  14. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
  16. RewriteRule . index.php [L]

The default one worked fine, but we’ve added a few things. You’ll want to change the rewrite base directory to the directory where you installed Magento. If it’s not in a sub-directory, then just leave one forward slash there.

In the default htaccess file, the first line in the above example is not included. While this is not a requirement on our servers, as most hosts have this enabled by default, if it is not enabled and you try to do any rewriting, you’ll get an internal server error. That line specifically might help.

Rewrite Explanation

The first four rewrite conditions are there in case a missing image, JavaScript, CSS stylesheet, or temporary file is requested.

The next three rewrite conditions check to see if a file, directory, or symbolic link exists.

If a request passes all of the above conditions, it is sent to the index.php file in the magento directory (because that is what we set as our rewrite base).

You can check out our rewrite article if you’re interested in learning more about htaccess and rewrites.

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Comments (14)

Phoenix on 24 July 2008 said:

Regarding FollowSymLinks: Do you use symlinks in our Magento setups?

Kyle on 24 July 2008 said:

@Phoenix:

We do not use any symbolic links.

Smithveg on 25 July 2008 said:

Hope to get a Magento Supported Hosting. ^.^

testosterone on 17 September 2008 said:

very nice hosting serivces

thn x a lot guys

rackSPEED on 28 September 2008 said:

Why must the hosting package “Options +FollowSymLinks” support? I can’t find a corresponding link in Magento folder.

Kyle on 28 September 2008 said:

See this article regarding why that line sometimes is required.

webshopnews on 16 November 2008 said:

Thanks for your blogpost and the infos about the modifications in your htaccess file. It saved us a lot of testing and time. Your hosting-service for 20 $ seems to be very interesting. Is there any testing available?

Magento Monster on 19 November 2008 said:

Hello,
thanks for relieving the htaccess issues! I’ve been searching for 2 days to solve this problem. Could you please get back to me with your hosting details. I’m interested in partnership.
If not, thanks for the time and keep up the good work!

Kyle on 19 November 2008 said:

@webshopnews:

We don’t have a demo store on Split-Shared, but if you submit a ticket to our Sales department, we would be happy to list some production stores running on this plan that you can check out.

@Magento Monster:

If you’d like to discuss a partnership or would like more information on our hosting plans, please submit a ticket to our Sales department. We would be very interested in setting something up, and look forward to working with you.

Sam on 08 December 2008 said:

One of my team have been testing out your website this week and have been really impressed by the speeds and support available for Magento - really good stuff!

Magento Themes on 14 January 2009 said:

I’m with a different host but this works perfectly for me! PS: Where are your servers located? Thinking of getting a UK based one… am thinking it may provide a bit of extra juice to my loading time.

Kyle on 14 January 2009 said:

Our servers are located in:

  • Seattle, Washington
  • Dallas, Texas
  • Washington, D.C.

Current provisioning servers are in Seattle though.

Jon on 02 June 2009 said:

I’m trying to password protect my installation of magento for development, etc. I’m having an aweful time getting it to work by editing the .htaccess file. I tried adding the necessary lines to magento’s default .htaccess, as well as the one you provided here, and get the same result both times. No login prompt, and my CSS is broken. Here is what I’m adding to the very top of either .htaccess file

AuthType Basic
AuthName “staging store”
AuthUserFile /home/myaccount/.htpasswds/staging/passwd
require valid-user

It appears that when I comment out the “AuthName” line, my CSS works again (maybe has something to do with the quotes? “staging store”) but I still get no authentication prompt.

Can you help?

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