I have custom webroot in ISPConfig configured
Code:
DocumentRoot "/var/www/clients/client1/web18/web/web/"
<Directory {DOCROOT}>
Options -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
In that root directory I have directory "manual" /var/www/site.tld/web/web/manual/ but I can't access any files in there, there are PDFs which are giving me 404 error when I am trying to access them via browser on url like http://site.tld/manual/file.PDF
Problem was that, apache has their default manual page in alias like this.
Alias /manual /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc/manual/
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/apache2-doc/manual/">
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
AddDefaultCharset off
</Directory>
I had to comment first line with "alias"
I create a .htaccess file with this content: (in the folder of the site)
#Disable directory indexes
Options -Indexes
But I still see the directories in the browser.
And in apache2.conf I rewrite this:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
What did I do wrong?
If that didn't work and you got no error then it looks like .htaccess files are not enabled on your server. You'll need something like AllowOverride All in the server config that controls this area of the filesystem.
At the very least you would need the following to permit just that one directive.
AllowOverride Options=Indexes
I have installed Laravel 4 on my public_html folder locally, and I can access its public folder when declaring a vhost pointing to it, through the vhost url.
But, when I try to access Laravel public folder through its parent folders, I get an error in apache logs (error_log): $LARAVEL_HOME/public/.htaccess: Options not allowed here. Even if there is a AllowOverride All in $VHOST_CONF/site.
The first line in the .htaccess (Options Multiviews), is causing this error when I delete it, or put it in $VHOST_CONF/site, it works.
So, How do I do to I access through the hierarchy, without modifying the .htaccess file?
In the Apache configuration file for the website set AllowOverride to AllowOverride All similar to the following:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
# changed from None to All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
My .htaccess file contains garbages value like
'dfdfsdfdsfdfdf'
Another file httpd.conf(/etc/apache2/httpd.conf) contains nothing
I expect at least .htaccess file to execute and display page as
internal server error
I also changed my code and change both file(.htaccess and httpd.conf) but the page index.php is displaying as if there is no both files(.htaccess and httpd.conf).
What is the cause?
httpd.conf should contain AllowOverride All for document root directory.
DocumentRoot "D:/Projects/Example/htdocs"
<Directory "D:/Projects/Example/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Otherwise, usage of .htaccess files is disabled.
I made it to work by modifying /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
AllowOverride All on
Directory /var/www/ And Directory /
I have this in my .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks
And I get the following error in the apache error_log:
.htaccess: Options not allowed here
Here's the part from my httpd.conf file:
#htdocs symlinks here
<Directory /Users/you/code/my/folder>
Options All
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory />
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs">
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
So I'm setting Options All and AllowOverride All everywhere, but STILL I'm not allowed to set the option. Can anyone make sense of this?
Thanks,
MrB
Note that this is a XAMPP-specific issue. XAMPP loads some additional configuration files located in XAMPP/etc/extra/ that override httpd.conf. For me the offending file is http-userdir.conf which applies rules for ~user requests and contains the line AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes and changing that line to AllowOverride All did indeed solve my issue.
This only applies to files served from your /Sites/ directory on OS X. I don't know if the Windows version uses UserDir at all or even has a similar rule.
in my case I end up with change the line AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo to AllowOverride All in file httpd-vhosts.conf where this file is located in apache\conf\extra folder
You have to allow overrides for "Options" within directory context. there's no need to:
vhost/directory config:
AllowOverride All
But only to permit overrides for 'Options':
AllowOverride {Existing options to override} +Options
I guess there is a global AllowOverride setting in your apache config which disallows this. Can you grep for AllowOverride in your httpd.conf?
I just installed the most recent version of XAMPP and thought to share how I solved the same problem.
This is a XAMPP specific setting (with every new XAMPP install). The most recent up to date XAMPP as of today - XAMPP 1.8.3 have a setting in /xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf that's causing your "Server Error" message.
And then you get the following error in your error log:
.htaccess: Options not allowed here
Open /xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf and find:
<Directory "/xampp/htdocs/xampp">
<IfModule php5_module>
<Files "status.php">
php_admin_flag safe_mode off
</Files>
</IfModule>
AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>
and change
AllowOverride AuthConfig
with
AllowOverride All
No authentication or authorization will be required after the change UNLESS you specify it in your httpd.conf, extra confs or in .htaccess.
You may also want to read the Apache documentation for the option AllowOverride http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/en/mod/core.html#allowoverride and choose more optimal and secure setting that will allow you to use your .htaccess without causing a server error.
Also keep in mind that you can find a better place to rewrite the rule above depending on the results that you'd like to achieve. In my case this is a satisfactory change.
instead of changing the global AllowOverride settings in your main httpd.conf file, if you have a httpd-vhosts.conf file you would want to put directory specific AllowOverride All directives in each host entry that you need it in, so you can keep a restrictive set on the rest of the server realm.
Change Options +FollowSymLinks into Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch in all instances of .htaccess file, the followsymlinks has been disabled on many server due to security risk.
On Debian 9 i edited the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf
Disabled this line
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
Added this line
Allowoverride All
And it worked fine.
Many thanks to all who contributed
Does the server your domain is hosted on fulfills all requirements needed for Elgg? Especially, is mod_rewrite available?
Re-check all steps you had done.
If mod_rewrite is working... Do you have access to the configuration (http.conf) of Apache on your server? If yes, add the following lines (adjust the path):
AllowOverride All