htaccess doesn't work in litespeed

Question

I use the following rewrite on my site and it worked fine in shared server.

 RewriteEngine On
 <Files .*> 
     Order Deny,Allow   
     Deny From All
 </Files>
 <Files ~ "^\.ht">
     order allow,deny
     deny from all
     satisfy all
 </Files>
 <FilesMatch "^php5?\.(ini|cgi)$">
     Order Deny,Allow 
     Deny from All 
     Allow from env=REDIRECT_STATUS 
 </FilesMatch> 
 AddDefaultCharset utf-8
 Options All -Indexes
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(gif|jpe?g|png|js|css|swf|ico|txt|pdf|xml)$ [OR]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
 RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
 RewriteRule ^.*$ public_html/index.php [NC,L]   

But now it shows the following error.

404 Not Found
The resource requested could not be found on this server!
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How can I fix this error?

It acts differently on LiteSpeed?

Solution 1

In my experience OpenLiteSpeed loads most of rewrites correctly but you have to prepend the rules with "/?", because of the optional initial slash.

FilesMatch rules need to be set at context or rewrite level, please see here:

https://openlitespeed.org/kb/access-control/#Controlling_Access_to_Files

Solution 2

Are you using Litespeed Enterprise or Openlitespeed?

OpenLitespeed cannot work with the .htaccess file, you need to configure it via web admin: Edit virtual host -> Rewrite

Litespeed Enterprise should work with the htaccess file, make sure you configure it to work with it:

Edit virtual host -> Rewrite -> Enable Rewrite: NO

Solution 3

Openlitespeed support with .htaccess, but must setting in Openlitespeed admin panel. From Openlitespeed admin panel click Virtual Host, Select your vhost. Klik Rewrite Tab, select 'Yes' in Rewrite Control->Enable Rewrite. Point your file in Rewrite Rules, for example /usr/local/lsws/web/.htaccess, and restart litespeed.

If you use centos, you can use auto install script with multi vhost support from https://github.com/tujuhion/openlitespeed-centos-autoinstall