Quote Originally Posted by DrByte View Post
You're looking at the rewrites backwards.
That may be... I have used rewrites off and on, strictly in a "formula" sense, never really took the time to dig into them.

But I did find the problem and it was something related but different. Apparently the latest Apache HTTP sets the default under the <Directory "/usr....."> for the document root as:

AllowOverrides None

..when the default previously was

AllowOverrides All

(This controls what directives in the htaccess file get acted upon. Actually, I'm going to review this and make sure one of the other settings might be better security wise)

Anyway..that fixed it..

What led me to this is that I'm also moving some wordpress sites at the same time and they were also choking with a similar error... This got me comparing the httpd.conf files and that was when I discovered that difference.

Thanks EVERYONE for all of your help and I will revisit the whole rewrite/plugin issue for the ZenCart site AFTER I get everything working and stabilized.. (Since the previous developer had hacked it, based on comments here, which I really appreciate.)

John..