WampServer URL rewriting problem

Mar 9, 2011 · Follow on Twitter and Mastodon

I have a hobby project that works great on MAMP, but that doesn’t run so good on WampServer, which seems to handle url rewriting differently. The fix turned out to be easier than expected.

When investigating this problem, I found that this happens because an Apache URL rewriting module that’s enabled by default in MAMP, is disabled by default in WampServer. This causes url rewriting to behave differently in the two servers.

The url rewriting module can be enabled by doing this:

  • Click on the WampServer icon in the system tray.
  • Navigate to Apache/Apache Modules.
  • Enable rewrite_module.

After this, URL rewriting should work the same way in both environments.