The following reply was made to PR general/2733; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ben Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/2733: .htaccess file ignored Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:19:46 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Synopsis: .htaccess file ignored > > State-Changed-From-To: feedback-closed > State-Changed-By: marc > State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 28 22:15:08 PDT 1998 > State-Changed-Why: > You have: > > <Directory /~bullock> > > in your config file. That is not a valid setting; you > can't use "/~user" anywere (eg. not even in a shell), and > ~ isn't valid in Apache config files anyway. Setup a > proper section enabling the AllowOverride and it will > work. OK, I've got it working now, but the "/~user" business wasn't the real problem; closely related to it though. It was the fact that at the very beginning of access.conf I originally had this section: # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of # permissions. <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> Writing it this way did the trick: # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of # permissions. <Directory /www/share/apache/htdocs> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> BTW, when this is done, then later on in access.conf I can use <Directory /~bullock> OR <Directory /www/share/apache/htdocs/bullock> OR <Directory /www/share/apache/htdocs/~bullock>. I would respectfully suggest that the stock access.conf file provided with the apache distribution include a preface to this important section that would read something like this: # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of # permissions for the document root directory. Be sure to specify # the correct path to YOUR document root in the first line. # For example: <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs> This should # agree with what you set DocumentRoot to in srm.conf. Thanks very much for your help in solving this problem. -Ben
