I'm using ubuntu to run a little webserver. Since 7.10 ran out of support I had to update to 9.04.
Nearly everything worked without change (even some mod_perl scripts I wrote).
Only the mod_rewrite rules didn't work any more. They didn't do anything any more.
Ubuntu uses a directory named /etc/apache2/conf.d where additional configurations can be placed, which are included in apache2.conf. There is a directory named /etc/apache2/sites-enabled were are the <VirtualHost> statements placed.
I placed my configurations in conf.d, where I placed Alias, <Location>, <Directory>, and the mod_rewrite statements.
This worked with ubuntu 7.10, but not with 9.04 any more. mod_info told me, that the statements in each file where recognized, but even RewriteLog didn't do anything. The statements were ignored completly.
After much experimenting (and reading in this forum
) I figured out that I had to place the mod_rewrite statements in my <VirtualHost> sections.
Now it works, but why? Why did this work in my old configuration and why it changed?
I don't like to fiddle with the sites-enabled configurations; it was much easyer to place anything related in one configuration file...