How to enable .htaccess files

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How to enable .htaccess files

Hopefully someone can give me a crash tutorial on:

1. How to enable .htaccess, .htlock etc. files on a MacOS X server.
2. How to see hidden files in the Finder.

Posted on Sep 16, 2005 4:47 AM

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philaweb Author

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Sep 16, 2005 6:33 AM in response to philaweb

Okay... Been fiddling a bit and I seem to have solved the first question myself.

To enable .htaccess files on Mac OS X Server 10.4 (the Tiger Server), do not make changes to /etc/httpd/httpd.conf expecting the AllowOverride All directive to work. The correct file to add the AllowOverride All directive is in the directory /etc/httpd/sites/. In that directory are the virtual host configuration files. Each virtual server has a configuration file in that directory (since Mac OS X Server is designed to host multiple web sites) so it is in those files that you must enable AllowOverride All.

Kewl ha? 🙂

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