[Wolves] htaccess

[Alan Pope]

On 30/06/05, Baza <baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 29 Jun 2005, at 22:04, David Goodwin wrote:
> 
> >>> 1) Make sure it's called .htaccess
> >>> 2) Find out whether you have any AllowOverRide settings present (or
> >>> denied) in the relevant (virtual) host, which I think have an
> >>> influence.
> >>>
> >>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#allowoverride
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Stupid question #23. where do I find that option? I assume it's in
> >> some config file  or other.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Somewhere within /etc/apache or /etc/apache2
> >
> > Suggest you do a cd /etc/apache<TAB> and then a
> > grep -ri allowoverride *
> >
> > and see what results appear.
> >
> > (If you're using a Debian based distro, probably
> > /etc/apache2/sites-available/default)
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> > David.
> >
> 
> That was -extremely- useful, thanks. Could you explain what that grep
> command thing does because it seems like a top idea.
> 
> 

>From "man grep"..

 grep, egrep, fgrep, rgrep - print lines matching a pattern

 -i, --ignore-case
 -r, --recursive

Cheers,
Al.