Hi Walt,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 February 2011 20:14, walt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walt@helvatron.co.uk">walt@helvatron.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Has anyone got a surefire way of getting the .htaccess in Apache 2 to work?<br>
The platform is Suse11.3 (VM). I'd truly like to understand and solve this </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
one.<br></blockquote><div><br>Anything in the error log? Have you tried adding the config in the
.htaccess file to the main config to rule in/out a http.conf issue?<br>
<br>
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I have been everywhere with this and applied every (dozens) of fixes most of<br>
which don't work and those that do are inconsistent like it works in Firefox<br>
but not in IE or the error page works in FF but not in IE. Redirect has<br>
never worked in any browser. I have even added comments to html files to<br>
increase their size and get round the IE problem of not picking up files<br>
smaller than 1kb. The other interesting feature is that, on the rare<br>
occasions when it does work and the .htaccess file has been changed to<br>
different instructions, the old instructions continue to be executed even<br>
after clearing the browser cache, restarting the server, restarting the<br>
client pc, ditching the cookies and changing the target html/php files'<br>
content.<br>
<br>
I have worked my way through the Apache manual and messed around with<br>
httpd.conf and then re-installed everything but to no avail. My next move<br>
was to install a WAMP server to see if that works but I get the same<br>
symptoms there.<br></blockquote><div><br>Might be easier to post/send me the the http.conf file and .htaccess file and I'll see if I can recreate the problem.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Is it Apache that deals with .htaccess or the browser or both? I know that<br>
it has to be enabled in the apache conf file which it is and permission are<br>
set correctly.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Depending on what's in your .htaccess file from an authentication perspective, but the server instigates and controls security while the browser conforms to security standard being used.<br>
<br>The only time the browser controls security on its own is by using Javascript and that's more preventative and it's easy to get around.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Any help, explanations, pointers advice would be greatly appreciated.<br>
Further details are available too.<br></blockquote><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Many thanks, Walt<br>
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