[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 4.4 introduction package and realUrl

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi there,

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]
<ernst at cron-it.de> wrote:
> Dmitry Dulepov schrieb am 24.06.2010 16:55:
>> Hi!
>>
>> ben van 't ende wrote:
>>> There was an idea we had to check for mod_rewrite and then de-activate realurl
>>> if not present. I can imagine the install gives a warning then. On the other
>>> hand I would like to keep it as simple as possible to.
>>
>> It is possible to check if mod_rewrite is present in Apache. But if it is
>> present, it does not mean it is enabled or configured, that's the problem.
>> "Enabled" or "configured" cannot be easily checked using server scripts. Of
>> course, it is possible to make a subrequest and see what it returns but
>> this is hackish :)
>>
>> Any more ideas?..
>
> I think that was the idea that came up in http://forge.typo3.org/issues/7643
>
> "If that goes successfully, an AJAX request is done to a realURL path"
>
> That sounds nice and not at all "hackish". From the issue tracking I
> cannot really see if this was implemented or not. But the idea is nice
> and maybe realurl could use similar technique when being installed?


This is basically what Drupal does when you install it. It's a nice
feature if you're installing the software on a server belonging to a
client or a host you haven't used before. I also can't imagine many
circumstances where you'd find that mod_rewrite is not present on
Apache, but it's not that unusual for it not to be enabled. Getting
the notification on installation saves a bit of time.

+1

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Christopher Torgalson
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