Re: .htaccess in apache 1.3.22

[charles@lunarmedia.net]

yeah, that was it thanks. i actually found it last week, and changed the 
AllowOverride to All, but i think i like the idea of adding specific 
Directory tags, but it may make my config a bit convoluted.

i'll look more into it. thanks.


On 29 Jan 2002, Danny Sauer wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 23:50, charles@lunarmedia.net wrote:
> > i'm using apache 1.3.22 and finding that my .htaccess files are being 
> > ignored by the webserver. to sum it up, i'm never being prompted for a 
> > username/password combination when entering a directory where they are 
> > present. mod_access seems to be called by the .conf file:
> > 
> > LoadModule access_module      modules/mod_access.so
> > AddModule mod_access.c
> > 
> > and further down in the config, i have:
> > 
> > AccessFileName .htaccess
> > 
> > <Files .htaccess>
> >   order allow,deny
> >   deny from all
> > </Files>
> > 
> > can anyone think of anything offhand that may need to be reconfigured?
> 
> You've probably got the preformance-enhancing
> 	<Directory />
> 		AllowOverride none
> 	</Directory>
> in your httpd.conf, but don't have a
> 	<Directory /path/to/new/protected/dir>
> 		AllowOverride AuthConfig
> 	</Directory>
> to offset the global setting.  AllowOverride is usually set to none for
> '/' so that apache doesn't have to look in every directory for a
> .htaccess file - it just looks in the ones below the highest-level
> directory with a non-"none" setting.
> 
> --Danny
> 
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