Re: Apache2 does not enable htaccess

[Lars Nooden <lars.nooden@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Gorka wrote:

> I've put my .htaccess under /var/www with this lonely line ...
> 
> IndexIgnore *
> 
> ... also there is in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default the following
> content ...
> 
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
> 
>         DocumentRoot /var/www
>         <Directory />
>                 Options FollowSymLinks
>                 AllowOverride None
>         </Directory>
>         <Directory /var/www/>
>                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>                 AllowOverride All
>                 Order allow,deny
>                 allow from all
>         </Directory>
> 
>         ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
>         <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
>                 AllowOverride None
>                 Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
>                 Order allow,deny
>                 Allow from all
>         </Directory>
> 
>         ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
> 
>         # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
>         # alert, emerg.
>         LogLevel warn
> 
>         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> ... As you can see, I've already changed AllowOverride from None to All
> But .htaccess doesn't seem to work yet. When I point to the url it lists the
> whole content of /var/www
> What's the matter? Any idea?

Put what you would have put inside .htaccess inside the appropriate 
Directory directive inside the web server's configuration file.  Remember 
to reload.  .htaccess is only for when you don't actually have write 
access to the web server's configuration.

Regards,
/Lars