Greetings,

Everything was working fine, but for some reason sites or directories with .htaccess returns error(Page not found). I am puzzled, and needs help. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

David Park

Apache error Log:
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[Wed Sep 12 07:29:43 2001] [alert] [client 24.31.63.146] /home/sites/home/users/stats/web/.htaccess: order not alllowed here
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.htaccess content
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#Access file
order allow,deny
allow from all
require group home
Authname WebStats
Authtype Basic
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access.conf:
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<Directory /home/sites/>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
AllowOverride AuthConfig
<Files ".ht*">
deny from all
</Files>
order allow,deny
allow from all
AuthFailDelay 2000000
AuthPAM_FallThrough on
</Directory>

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David Y. Park
Lovetree Systems Inc.
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It looks like they are set up to not be allowed.

Originally posted by jkcity
It looks like they are set up to not be allowed.

Please elaborate on which line is not configured, and help poor soul.


David

You can find information on the second post of this thread on how to enable .ht*

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=20438

Hope this helps :)

I made changes as below to access.conf, and restarted apache. However, it is still not working.. Any advise.?


David

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# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination ..ons", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"

AllowOverride All

# ignore .ht*
<Files ".ht*">
deny from all
</Files>
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Hmm, did you change anything else?

ok, make sure the quotes are around the Authname so it looks like

Authname "WebStats"

No. I even updated access.conf.master with "AllowOverride All " and replaced access.conf, but still same...

-David

Originally posted by Haze
ok, make sure the quotes are around the Authname so it looks like

Authname "WebStats"

Done that.. But same. I am puzzled.

-David

Did you restart apache?

Originally posted by CmptrWz
Did you restart apache?

Yes, I restarted -> stopped and started ..

-David

Ok, what is it that you are trying to do exactly with the .htaccess file?

.htaccess was put in the directory by webalizer pkg for authentication, And it was working fine until this problem today.

I applied appache update pkg, but it was a week ago. Nothing has changed since...

-David

Problem Solved!

Thanks to everyone's help and lextra dose of caffeine in my blood, the problem was traced to mod_gzip.

Apparently, new apache upgrade pkg did not like extra directives I put in in httpd.conf for mod_gzip. I had to recompile mod_gzip and everything went back to normal. Although I am puzzled as to why it worked for a few days, I am going to bed now.

Thanks everyone!

-David