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I have a hosted account not linked to any domain at /~me.

In the top level of my home directory I have a .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule 123.html cgi-bin/example.php [nc]

The full path of example.php is /~me/public_html/cgi-bin/example.php. However /~me/123.html returns a 404.

Is my .htaccess not valid?

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    /~me/public_html/cgi-bin/example.php contains the above file - what do you mean? Where's the .htaccess file located? Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 5:02
  • "in the top level of my home directory" - /~me. The full path of file cgi-bin/example.php is at /~me/public_html/cgi-bin/example.php. Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 10:37
  • Which directory is your document root - ~me or ~me/public_html? Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 16:31
  • /~me but it's a pretty standard hosting idea that web requests get redirected to public_html. The .htaccess file in ~me should still work. That's how it works in my other host provider for example. Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 16:55
  • Well, if you put a test.html file in ~me, not in public_html, does it work? Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 17:00

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The issue was the shared hosts Apache mod_rewrite config that identifies which script to run by the host. I wasn't using a hostname initially, just raw IP, so the server didn't which user account directory to find the target script in.

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