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jasonhollett
Guide
Jul 16, 2008

Enabling .htaccess

Hi, I've been trying to get .htaccess files working on my ReadyNAS, but Apache doesn't seem to be setup to do this by default. A .htaccess file on my server with just "RewriteEngine on" causes a 40...
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WhoCares_
Mentor
Jan 31, 2013
dthrevan wrote:
Alias /website/test /c/website/test

<Location "/website/test">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Location>


This looks almost correct but you may need to add a '+' sign in front of Indexes, FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch. Not sure about the correct syntax in a Location block but iirc you also need an "AllowOverride FileInfo" statement in there. Also, if you only want to enable .htaccess processing, you may only need the +FollowSymLinks option.

-Stefan

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