Gallery2, mod_rewrite loaded but not working

[BoBoeBoe]

I run Gallery2 on an Apache2 SSL Vhosts. Everything seems to work fine except for: mod_rewrite.

I checked that mod_rewrite is loaded using phpinfo

On the gallery2 page http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:rewrite I found that I should add the line:

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<Directory /full/path/to/gallery2>
    AllowOverride FileInfo Options
</Directory>

to my apache config file. Whenever I add this line to my 00_default_ssl_vhost.conf

Oeps! I get an internal server error

Here I am at a point where I don't have a clue what could be wrong. Anyone any suggestions what to do?

This is what my apache error-log says:

[Wed Oct 08 23:15:09 2008] [alert] [client ip-address] /var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery/.htaccess: deny not allowed here, referer: https://myvhost.mydomain.com/main.php?g ... =xdd972e49

If I remove this line from my 00_default_ssl_vhost.conf I get the following error when I access the plugins/rewrite page on my Gallery2 site ("URL Rewrite Setup"). The page detects that mod_rewrite is not working and it results in a similar entry in my apache error-log:

[Wed Oct 08 23:19:29 2008] [alert] [client ip-address] /var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery/.htaccess: deny not allowed here, referer: https://myvhost.mydomain.com/main.php?g ... =xdd972e49

This is how my 00_default_ssl_vhost.conf looks like:

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<VirtualHost myserver-ip-address:443>
        Serveradmin webmaster@mydomain.com

        Documentroot /var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery
        Servername myvhost.mydomain.com
        Serveralias myvhost

        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateKeyFile    /etc/apache2/ssl/myvhost.server.key
        SSLCertificateFile       /etc/apache2/ssl/myvhost.server.crt
        SSLOptions StrictRequire
        SSLProtocol all -SSLv2

        ErrorLog logs/gallery2-error_log
        CustomLog logs/gallery2-access_log common

        <Directory "/var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery">
          SSLRequireSSL
          Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
          AllowOverride None
          Order allow,deny
          Allow from all
#          AllowOverride FileInfo Options
        </Directory>

        <IfModule itk.c>
          AssignUserID apache apache
          MaxClientsVHost 50
        </IfModule>
     </Virtualhost>

[elgato319]

seems more like a problem in "/var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery/.htaccess"
could you post this too?

[BoBoeBoe]

Here is my "/var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery/.htaccess"

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<Files ~ "\.(inc|class)$">
   Deny from all
</Files>

# BEGIN Url Rewrite section
# (Automatically generated.  Do not edit this section)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # The path to your Gallery (in this case example.com/gallery2/)
    RewriteBase /var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery/

    RewriteRule ^admin /gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin   [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
# END Url Rewrite section

[elgato319]

#<Files ~ "\.(inc|class)$">
# Deny from all
#</Files>

could you comment this and try if it's working?

[BoBoeBoe]

I commented the lines, but nevertheless it did not really help me any further.

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 URL Rewrite Setup
Apache mod_rewrite

Testing if mod_rewrite is supported by the server.
	
Warning
Custom Gallery directory test setup

Gallery tries to test mod_rewrite in action. For this to work you need to edit each of these two files accordingly:

/var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery/modules/rewrite/data/mod_rewrite/custom/.htaccess
Line 6: RewriteBase /modules/rewrite/data/mod_rewrite/custom/

/var/www/myvhost.mydomain.com/htdocs/gallery/modules/rewrite/data/mod_rewrite_no_options/custom/.htaccess
Line 6: RewriteBase /modules/rewrite/data/mod_rewrite_no_options/custom/
Test mod_rewrite manually

For whatever reason, Gallery did not detect a working mod_rewrite setup. If you are confident that mod_rewrite does work you may override the automatic detection. Please, run these two tests to see for yourself.
Works 	Test
	mod_rewrite configuration 1 (with global Options +FollowSymlinks)
	mod_rewrite configuration 2 (with local Options +FollowSymlinks)

If one of the two tests gives you a page with the text PASS_REWRITE you are good to go.
Gallery .htaccess file

Testing if Gallery can write to the .htaccess file. 

[elgato319]

well...
did you try the two tests the setup suggests?
Did you edit the two files like the setup suggests?

the setup seems to test if mod_rewrite is available, but it states that this check can be disabled.

[BoBoeBoe]

Sorry that I wasn't that complete in my reply, but yes of coarse I did.