Apache and .htaccess

[fluiduk]

Hi All

Think this belongs in here more than HTML.

I am trying to setup .htaccess on my apache/linux server.

I have created the htaccess file and uploaded it, but the server seems to be ignoring it. Even if I fill the file with random text the server works fine, when it should throw up an internal server error.

Any ideas?
Aaron

 

[matja]

first check that AccessFileName hasn't been changed from the default of ".htaccess" in your httpd.conf, then check that a AllowOverride declaration is present for the directory, or a parent directory of the directory you have the .htaccess file in, and has a value corresponding to the property of which you wish to override.
ie :

<Directory "/var/www/localhost/">
    AllowOverride All
    ...

 

[fluiduk]

Hiya

Yeah turned out to be the overides, got it working for images now. Just trying to stop users leeching our video (wmv) files now

Aaron