I'll preface this with I'm not an expert but why not just put whatever you have in the htaccess file in your Directory section. Everything is in one place. I don't think you need to modify httpd.conf. If it works it's probably good. Alain Roger <raf.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi, > >on my local computer (localhost on windows 7) i installed Apache to use >Joomla. >I setup virtual host (\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf) and it >works >great. > >now for each virtual host, i would like to use a special .htaccess >file, so >i added: >AccessFileName .htaccess > >here is an example of a virtualhost: ><VirtualHost *:80> > DocumentRoot "d:/webserver/www/rogtek17" > ServerName rogtek17.loc > ServerAlias www.rogtek17.loc > ErrorLog "logs/rogtek17.loc.error.log" > CustomLog "logs/rogtek17.loc.access.log" common > > AccessFileName .htaccess > > <Directory "d:/webserver/www/rogtek17"> > AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > Allow from 127.0.0.1 > </Directory> > ></VirtualHost> > >1. is it correct or should i also update the standar httpd.conf file in >the >\apache\conf\ folder ? >2. How to be sure that it is well configured ? > > >thx. >-- >Alain >----------------------------------------------------------- >Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 14 x64 >PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MySQL 5 >Apache 2.2.16 >PHP 5.3.1 >C# 2005-2008 -- Knute Johnson --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx