[Watford] .htaccess

[Neel Upadhyaya]

The .htacess file is used by apache. You need to have the allow override
directive set in the httpd.conf for that or a parent directory.
On 20 Feb 2011 20:14, "walt" <walt at helvatron.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone got a surefire way of getting the .htaccess in Apache 2 to
work?
> The platform is Suse11.3 (VM). I'd truly like to understand and solve this
> one.
>
> I have been everywhere with this and applied every (dozens) of fixes most
of
> which don't work and those that do are inconsistent like it works in
Firefox
> but not in IE or the error page works in FF but not in IE. Redirect has
> never worked in any browser. I have even added comments to html files to
> increase their size and get round the IE problem of not picking up files
> smaller than 1kb. The other interesting feature is that, on the rare
> occasions when it does work and the .htaccess file has been changed to
> different instructions, the old instructions continue to be executed even
> after clearing the browser cache, restarting the server, restarting the
> client pc, ditching the cookies and changing the target html/php files'
> content.
>
> I have worked my way through the Apache manual and messed around with
> httpd.conf and then re-installed everything but to no avail. My next move
> was to install a WAMP server to see if that works but I get the same
> symptoms there.
>
> Is it Apache that deals with .htaccess or the browser or both? I know that
> it has to be enabled in the apache conf file which it is and permission
are
> set correctly.
>
> Any help, explanations, pointers advice would be greatly appreciated.
> Further details are available too.
>
> Many thanks, Walt
>
>
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