Questions[.htaccess](server)

I'm trying to add a conditional statement using Apache's If directive in my .htaccess file.

I have referenced this page http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/core.html#if but it doesn't elaborate much / give many examples. Two incomplete examples it gives are:

<If %{REQUEST_METHOD} IN GET,HEAD,OPTIONS> 

and

<If "$req{Host} = ''"> 

So I've tried to add this to my .htaccess file:

<If %{SERVER_PORT} IN GET,HEAD,OPTIONS>
   #nothing here yet
</If>

But I keep getting Error 500 when I try and load the page. This is on my local install, and it was working fine previously (or if I remove that code). I believe I have AllowOverride All set up globally, and the context for the If directive should let it be present in .htaccess ("Context: server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess").

Can someone give me some examples of how to properly use the <If> directive, or some guidance as to why it is not working for me?

Thanks!

I'm running a LAMP server on Fedora 13 that's working fine; however, I just added an ".htaccess" file to my current site's docroot folder that is being completely ignored.

I've tried half a dozen different tests, including this one:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php

But images and all other pages load fine, and non-existent files still 404. I also tried this:

order deny,allow
deny from all

But every page still loads just fine. Again the .htaccess file is simply ignored 100%.

We put our virtualhost records in /etc/httpd/conf.d/virtual.conf. It looks like this:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName              intranet
    DocumentRoot            /var/www/default
    <Directory "/var/www/default">
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All

        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName              ourwebsite.com
    DocumentRoot            /var/www/html/ourwebsite.com/docroot
    <Directory "/var/www/html/ourwebsite.com/docroot">
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All

        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

What else could be causing our server to completely IGNORE the .htaccess file??

Edit:

I changed the .htaccess file to above to better demonstrate that my changes are being ignored. Note that I tried the exact same .htaccess file on the production server and it worked fine.

Edit 2:

OK, I have new information! Just for testing purposes, I went through and temporarily changed EVERY "AllowOverride" directive to AllowOverride All. I figured out that the very first Directory entry seems to overpower all others:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

When I changed that to AllowOverride All, my .htaccess files begin taking effect. It's like all the other AllowOverride All directives in my config files are being ignored!

What Gives??

I have a website that is sending out "cache-control" and "pragma" HTTP headers for PHP requests.
I'm not doing that in the code, so I'm assuming it's some kind of Apache configuration, as suggested by this question (you don't really need to go there for this question's context)

I don't have anything in my .htaccess files, so it's gotta be in Apache's configuration itself, but I can't access that, this is a shared hosting, I only have FTP access to my website's directory.

Is there any way that I can add directives to my .htaccess files that will remove the headers added by the global configuration, or otherwise override the directive so that they're not added in the first place?

Thank you very much
Daniel

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