These rewrite rules can be used if you don't have direct access to alter the virtual host configuration, which is common in a shared hosting setup. The file ".htaccess_root" is included in the installation package of your eZ Publish installation. In order to activate these rewrite rules in your hosted environment, you must change the name of the file to ".htaccess" and keep in the same folder as the original ".htaccess_root" file.

Please find an example of the ".htaccess" rewrite rules below:

# Copy this file to a new file called .htaccess in your eZ Publish root
# to secure your installation by turning on .htaccess based virtual host mode.
 
DirectoryIndex index.php
 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^api/ index_rest.php [L]
RewriteRule ^index_rest\.php - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+/)?content/treemenu.* index_treemenu\.php [L]
RewriteRule ^var/([^/]+/)?storage/images(-versioned)?/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^var/([^/]+/)?cache/(texttoimage|public)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^share/icons/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|flash|images|lib|javascripts?)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^packages/styles/.+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/[^/]+/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^packages/styles/.+/thumbnail/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^var/storage/packages/.* - [L]
 
# Makes it possible to placed your favicon at the root of your
# eZ Publish instance. It will then be served directly.
RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico - [L]
# Uncomment the line below if you want you favicon be served from the standard design.
# You can customize the path to favicon.ico by replacing design/standard/images/favicon.ico
# by the adequate path.
#RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico /design/standard/images/favicon\.ico [L]
RewriteRule ^design/standard/images/favicon\.ico - [L]
 
# Give direct access to robots.txt for use by crawlers (Google, Bing, Spammers..)
RewriteRule ^robots\.txt - [L]
 
# Uncomment the following lines when using popup style debug.
# RewriteRule ^var/cache/debug\.html.* - [L]
# RewriteRule ^var/[^/]+/cache/debug\.html.* - [L]
 
# Platform for Privacy Preferences Project ( P3P ) related files for Internet Explorer
# More info here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3p
RewriteRule ^w3c/p3p\.xml - [L]
 
RewriteRule .* index\.php