Re: enabling htaccess in vhosts

[Rich Bowen <rbowen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/06/2014 10:35 AM, Matthew Smith wrote:

is this correct?  I am not getting the desired behaviour...

DocumentRoot "C:/wwwroot"

#

# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect

# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that

# directory (and its subdirectories). 

#

# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of 

# features.  

#

<Directory />

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride All

    Order deny,allow

    Deny from all

</Directory>

No, that is *not* correct.

You want AllowOverride None in Directory /

What you're looking for is

<Directory "C:/wwwroot">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Better yet, put your directives directly into that Directory block and don't use .htaccess files at all.

--Rich

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Pete Houston <ph1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No need for Google, just go straight to the source:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/htaccess.html

Pete

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:53:07PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
> How do I do so?  I googled but can't figure it out.

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