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gijs007
Asked: 2015-03-22 05:25:05 +0800 CST

Specify which directores to look for .htaccess file

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I'd read that enabling .htaccess for all directories causes a performance overhead, because all subfolders are also scanned for .htaccess files.

I'd like to only have the .htaccess file read in: /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html and /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html/forum

I've configured the following in my apache2.conf (for /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html)

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

But this doesn't seem to work.. the sub directories are also read for .htaccess files

I should mention that xgclan.com is a virtualhost. What am I doing wrong?

I was able to prevent subdirectories from being checked for .htaccess files with:

<Directory /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html/>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

But this also blocked the .htaccess file in /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html/forum So I tried adding the following rule to allow that specific directory:

<Directory /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html/forum>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

But this doesn't seem to work.

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Have you tried adding the Directory section withing the VirtualHost declaration?

    What is your error_log output when accessing the host on the browser? Do you get any error as stated in the apache docs?

    Ok, so if you want apache to scan just two specific folders out of the whole virtualhost directory for .htaccess files you should specify which ones you want to forbid and allow, something like:

    <Directory /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html/*/>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/xgclan.com/public_html/forum>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>
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