Centos htaccess not being read

.htaccess lamp
Kamran224 picture Kamran224 · Dec 18, 2011 · Viewed 48.5k times · Source

I'm working on a new server and I installed via yum the "Web Server" group. Php and mysql work fine but I can't get .htaccess to work.

Heres my test .htaccess file:

WASD_TEST_CALL_ERROR

I put this as .htaccess in a test folder along with an index.html page. Instead of reporting an error it goes ahead and loads the index page without displaying any errors.

Thanks

Answer

Unknown3r picture Unknown3r · Jun 17, 2012

Make sure AccessFileName set to .htaccess

Search httpd.conf for AccessFileName directive. It defines name of the distributed configuration file:

grep -i AccessFileName httpd.conf

Make sure users are allowed to use .htaccess file

What you can put in these files is determined by the AllowOverride directive. This directive specifies, in categories, what directives will be honored if they are found in a .htaccess file. If this directive is set to None, then .htaccess files are completely ignored. In this case, the server will not even attempt to read .htaccess files in the filesystem.

grep -i AllowOverride httpd.conf

When this directive is set to All, then any directive which has the .htaccess Context is allowed in .htaccess files: AllowOverride All

Save and close the file. Restart httpd:

service httpd restart

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