AllowOverride all not reading ,htaccess

Hi All,

I think I need another pair of eyes to see what I am doing wrong. I
cannot get the AllowOverride All to accept the .htaccess information.

<Directory /var/www/mydir>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

..htaccess:
AuthName "Domain Password Required"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require user helvete

Options +Indexes
IndexOptions +FancyIndexing

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards, Brian

"Brian S. Paskin" <brian@paskino.com> wrote in message
news:caea27eb-f05f-4616-8934-4f19719d53e2@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I think I need another pair of eyes to see what I am doing wrong. I
> cannot get the AllowOverride All to accept the .htaccess information.
>
> <Directory /var/www/mydir>
> AllowOverride All
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> .htaccess:
> AuthName "Domain Password Required"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd
> AuthGroupFile /dev/null
> require user helvete
>

This should work - I've just tried it on an apache server (2.0.49) and it
works as expected.
This is assuming that your .htaccess file is in /var/www/mydir/ or a
subdirectory inside it.

On Mar 11, 12:51 pm, "phantom" <nob...@blueyonder.invalid> wrote:

>
> This should work - I've just tried it on an apache server (2.0.49) and it
> works as expected.
> This is assuming that your .htaccess file is in /var/www/mydir/ or a
> subdirectory inside it.

Hmm... Apache is reporting version 2.2.4.

I checked and mydir is where the .htaccess file is located.

Maybe they changed something on the new version.

Regards, Brian

Always a stupid error! I had the wrong permissions on the .htaccess
file and the Apache process could not read the file.

Thanks,
Brian