apache newbie here, how to allow Apache to support .htaccess

[urboyfriend]

how do we allow apache to support .htaccess files? i went to httpd and there was like 3 AllowOverride there thank you for the reply

[Sharley]

how do we allow apache to support .htaccess files?

Apache supports .htaccess and .htpasswd by default.

What's your problem

[urboyfriend]

i just want to know where to modify the option...

[Sharley]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/co ... owoverride

In the htdocs.conf file the 3 Allowoverride entries are correct and disallow .htaccess (none) by default in folders other than the htdocs folder - do not modify them.

If you want to allow .htaccess in other folders outside the htdocs folder (DocumentRoot) then you need to use a VirtualHost in the htdocs-vhosts.conf file in the extra folder of apache conf folder.

Otherwise you will seriously effect security if you allow .htaccess files in any folder outside the htdocs folder as entries in this file override security entries in the htdocs configuration files.

I ask again what is your problem with .htaccess file?

BTW please follow instructions here when ever you post for help:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=48331
Thanks.

[JonB]

i just want to know where to modify the option...

Sadly urboyfriend, as .htaccess directives work both in the configuration '.conf' files and on a folder by folder basis by introducing individual .htaccess files into the directory tree, there is no 'one answer'.

- this is a very good introduction -
http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess.php

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html

So the answer you seek is - you change it where needed. Most likely in your DocumentRoot.

Good Luck







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[urboyfriend]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride

In the htdocs.conf file the 3 Allowoverride entries are correct and disallow .htaccess (none) by default in folders other than the htdocs folder - do not modify them.

If you want to allow .htaccess in other folders outside the htdocs folder (DocumentRoot) then you need to use a VirtualHost in the htdocs-vhosts.conf file in the extra folder of apache conf folder.

Otherwise you will seriously effect security if you allow .htaccess files in any folder outside the htdocs folder as entries in this file override security entries in the htdocs configuration files.

I ask again what is your problem with .htaccess file?

BTW please follow instructions here when ever you post for help:
http://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=48331
Thanks.

nothing much i was just lurking at the zend beginner's tutorial

http://akrabat.com/wp-content/uploads/Getting-Started-with-Zend-Framework.pdf

not sure where to edit the htacess, i just continue with the tutorial until i went to page 4, i discarded the problem and just pasted the folder in my local htdocs folder. all went fine there i guess. i am using xampp