.htaccess Issues With Macports Apache Install

[Steve Edwards]

Ryan,

Works like a charm.  Thanks a ton!

One quick follow up question:  what does this line do?

Alias /~rschmidt /Users/rschmidt/Sites

Thanks.

Steve




Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Steve! Here's some help for your first question; I'll tackle your 
> second question in the next email.
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2009, at 01:09, Steve Edwards wrote:
>
>> On my MacBook Pro, I installed Apache/MySQL/PHP using MacPorts. I'm 
>> running PHP 5.2.9 and Apache 2.2.11.  It works great, except for a 
>> couple things.  For some reason, the .htaccess file cannot have the 
>> following lines in it:
>>
>> # PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
>> <IfModule mod_php5.c>
>>   php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
>>   php_value register_globals                0
>>   php_value session.auto_start              0
>>   php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
>>   php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
>>   php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
>> </IfModule>
>>
>> When they are, I get the following error message in my Apache error log:
>>
>>  /Users/steve/Sites/myartleague/.htaccess: php_value not allowed here
>>
>> However, if I comment them out and put them in httpd.conf, I don't 
>> get the error.  However, this is a pain, since I have to modify the 
>> .htaccess any time it's updated.
>>
>> What's odd is that I have AllowOverride All set in httpd.conf.  You 
>> can see it at http://pastebin.com/m4e09f963.
>
> True, the AllowOverride All you have in your <Directory 
> "/Users/steve/Sites"> block is all you need. But this line is undoing it:
>
> Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
>
> In httpd-userdir.conf, you'll see the line:
>
> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
>
> I tried that line on my system and was able to reproduce your problem. 
> So you can either change the AllowOverride in httpd-userdir.conf to 
> All, or just don't use httpd-userdir.conf and mod_userdir at all. On 
> my MacBook Pro, I'm the only user and the only one whose home 
> directory should be served, so I turn off mod_userdir and don't 
> include httpd-userdir.conf; instead, I just add this to my httpd.conf:
>
>
> # Enable just rschmidt's home directory.
> <Directory /Users/rschmidt/Sites>
>     Options FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride All
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> Alias /~rschmidt /Users/rschmidt/Sites
>
>
> Note also in the Apache documentation:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride
>
> "For security and performance reasons, do not set AllowOverride to 
> anything other than None in your <Directory /> block."
>
> You have currently set AllowOverride to All in your <Directory /> block.
>
>
>
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