htaccess not working....

[Ed]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:43 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,  I am trying to get a .htaccess password file working.  It does not
> work.  I suspect it is the "AllowOverride All" causing the mod rewrite to
> not work.
>
> I tried something different this time when I configured Apache.  I added a
> file named vhosts.conf in the /etc/httpd/config.d/ directory.  I have not
> modified the main httpd.conf file.  All changes have been made to the
> vhosts.conf file.
>
> I added this just before the vhost container.
>
> <Directory /home/user-directory/public_html>
>     Options FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
>     AllowOverride All
>     DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
> </Directory>
>
> Maybe it is not working....
>
> I am running a stock version of CentOS 6.5 with Apache/2.2.15.
>
> Or there is an error.  I'm looking in the /var/log/httpd/error_log and find
> nothing that appears to have been caused by the htaccess.  Is there another
> log I should be looking at?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help!!
>
> Keith
>

Keith - Apache changed access configuration - I know for sure in the
2.4 branch - but maybe earlier. You might check the manuals for 2.2
just in case. Also, /var/log/httpd/access_log might show something.