How to check if mod_rewrite is enabled in php?

If you're using mod_php, you can use apache_get_modules(). This will return an array of all enabled modules, so to check if mod_rewrite is enabled, you could simply do

in_array('mod_rewrite', apache_get_modules());

Unfortunately, you're most likely trying to do this with CGI, which makes it a little bit more difficult.

You can test it using the following, though

strpos(shell_exec('/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl -l'), 'mod_rewrite') !== false

If the above condition evaluates to true, then mod_write is enabled.


I like Christian Roy's solution:

###  .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    # Tell PHP that the mod_rewrite module is ENABLED.
    SetEnv HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    # The rest of your rewrite rules here

</IfModule>

Then, you can check in your PHP code for

    array_key_exists('HTTP_MOD_REWRITE', $_SERVER);

No idea if this works also with IIS (I have no way to check) but the odds are good.


Copy this piece of code and run it to find out.

<?php
 if(!function_exists('apache_get_modules') ){ phpinfo(); exit; }
 $res = 'Module Unavailable';
 if(in_array('mod_rewrite',apache_get_modules())) 
 $res = 'Module Available';
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>A mod_rewrite availability check !</title></head>
<body>
<p><?php echo apache_get_version(),"</p><p>mod_rewrite $res"; ?></p>
</body>
</html>

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Php

Apache

Iis

Mod Rewrite

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