Why are all files (except index.php) being redirected to 'index.html'?

Question

We have a Drupal 7 Drupal Commerce site that we've just moved to our virtual private apache server, however we're seeing very strange behaviour that's making the site not work.

We're getting a strange problem where many files (images, CSS, JS) are getting "307: Temporary redirect"s to 'index.html', which doesn't even exist.

We have a very ordinary apache setup (no unusual settings), and the htaccess file of our website is straight from Drupal core - we haven't edited ourselves.

Is this a problem with the way we've set up Drupal, apache, DNS, or something else?

Answer 1

There is a Rewrite Rule written in .htaccess as,

# Pass all requests not referring directly to files in the filesystem to
# index.php. Clean URLs are handled in drupal_environment_initialize().
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

This may be your problem.

There are few assumptions that can be the reason why its happening :

• Please check the method you the using to access files.
• It might be your server issue which does not provide correct access rights for accessing the files
• Your files are not properly placed in correct locations.