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Katai
Asked: 2012-06-09 10:08:29 +0800 CST

Apache2 .htaccess

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I'm getting really frustrated today, while trying to just set up my development environement and start doing some actual work.

After installing php, apache2 and mysql over apt-get install phpmyadmin I'm trying since about an hour, to make .htaccess files work in my /var/www/projectname/.htaccess

I tried out multiple solutions, that basically told me to edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default but none of them seemed to work.

What I tried:

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    #AllowOverride All
    #AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options=All, MultiViews        
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

The commented lines are what I tried, both didnt work. I either get a 500 internal error (when I set AllowOverride All) or the .htaccess doesnt do anything.

Can someone help me here? I need to get this to work, to finally start working :)

As side note, my knowledge with ubuntu or linux in common, is very slim - I just do what google tells me.

cat /etc/issue: Ubuntu 11.10
apache2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You need to enable AllowOverride all.

    The 500 error is occuring because there's a bug in the htaccess which is either causing an infinite loop and making apache get confused or doing something else weird. Most likely because of a typo. Paste in the htaccess file and we can have a look.

    Also, run the command sudo a2enmod rewrite to ensure that the htaccess rewrite functions work.

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  2. When I get this error it usually is a permission issue make sure apache2's user/ group have read permissions on the files and execute permissions on the directory..

    I think this could help a little. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/servers/5270-apache-conf-html-permissions.html

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