Unable to check mod_rewrite status

[gregstah]

HI, I know that mod_rewrite is enabled in Apache, however but when trying to setup a CRM (https://www.espocrm.com/) it stalls because ESPO can't confirm that mod_rewrite is enabled in it's install checklist.

Is there a way around this? I presume it's running code something like this:

if (in_array('mod_rewrite', $modules)) { echo "mod_rewrite is enabled."; }

Thank you.

[rfay]

Hi @gregstah - are you using apache-fpm? If not, it can't work. But with ddev config --webserver-type=apache-fpm it should work as it would on any project with apache and FPM.

However, if ESPO assumes that it only runs on Apache with mod-php (PHP linked directly into Apache) it won't work. There are a few older PHP projects that make that assumption.

@GuySartorelli has talked about doing a DDEV add-on or recipe to enable mod-php in DDEV. We had it for a few years but dropped it 4-5 years ago because it was little used and the performance was terrible.

[gregstah]

Hi Randy, thank you for your help.

As you suspected, it defaults to "nginx-fpm" updating the yaml file to apache-fpm solved the problem.

It's working perfectly. I'm new to ddev and can't get over how blazingly fast it is.

[rfay]

Yay, glad it worked!