Re: [users@httpd] Access control problems, .htaccess and Directory and Allow directives

["Emmanuel E" <emmanuel.e@xxxxxxx>]

yes i got that. But I have set AllowOverride to All in the directory htdocs. 
So why dosent .htaccess work? I mean I thought as outlined in 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/sections.html#mergin - "So for example, 
<Directory /var/web/dir> will be processed before <Directory 
/var/web/dir/subdir>." So shouldnt the <Directory "C:/Apache2/htdocs"> 
directives be processed *after * the <Directory /> directives, hence 
enabling the overrides?

============================
<Directory "C:/Apache2/htdocs">

   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks


   AllowOverride All

   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all


</Directory>
===========================


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@xxxxxxxx>
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Access control problems, .htaccess and Directory 
and Allow directives


> On 1/7/06, Emmanuel E <emmanuel.e@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > <Directory />
> >     Options FollowSymLinks
> >     AllowOverride None
> > </Directory>
>
> > The .htaccess file in C:\ contains the following:
> >
> > =====================
> > AuthUserFile c:/apache2/bin/password.txt
> > AuthName "blah"
> > AuthType Basic
> > Require user blah
> > Satisfy All
> > ======================
> >
> >
> > AllowOverride All is enabled for the Directory htdocs. Therefore it 
> > should
> > look up the .htaccess file.  The .htaccess files documentation says that
> > Apache traverses every folder upto the root directory looking for 
> > .htaccess
> > files. Therefore it should reach the file in C:\. However it is not
>
> Apache only looks for .htaccess files in directories where
> AllowOverride is not none.  It doesn't look for AllowOverride only in
> the directory requested; it looks also in all parent directories.  So
> the AllowOverride none in <Directory /> above tells apache not to look
> for .htaccess files in the root directory or any directories
> underneath it until there is one where AllowOverride is set otherwise.
>
> Joshua.


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