Mailing List Archive: Recognizing .htaccess in non-apache directory.

My system administrator and myself are puzzled over Apache using a .htaccess
file that it shouldn't know about.

The .htaccess file is located at:

/home/fred/.htaccess

Apache is located at:

/usr/local/apache/

In the httpd.conf file are the following statements which may provide clues:

ServerRoot /usr/local/apache
DocumentRoot /home/fred/web
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/fred/cgi
ScriptAlias /cgi /home/fred/cgi

(These are the only references containing /home/fred.)

When a change is made to /home/fred/.htaccess Apache reads and makes the
changes to the configuration.

The question is that why is apache looking at that file? The document root
is /home/fred/web not /home/fred.

Any ideas appreciated.

Regards,
Andrew.

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http://httpd.apache.org/docs/configuring.html#htaccess

"Directives placed in .htaccess files apply to the directory where you place
the file, and all sub-directories."

See also the section "Locating and Merging .htaccess Files" at Ken's tutorial:

http://apache-server.com/tutorials/ATusing-htaccess.html

On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:35:55PM +0800, Andrew Tomazos wrote:
> My system administrator and myself are puzzled over Apache using a .htaccess
> file that it shouldn't know about.
>
> The .htaccess file is located at:
>
> /home/fred/.htaccess
>
> Apache is located at:
>
> /usr/local/apache/
>
> In the httpd.conf file are the following statements which may provide clues:
>
> ServerRoot /usr/local/apache
> DocumentRoot /home/fred/web
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/fred/cgi
> ScriptAlias /cgi /home/fred/cgi
>
> (These are the only references containing /home/fred.)
>
> When a change is made to /home/fred/.htaccess Apache reads and makes the
> changes to the configuration.
>
> The question is that why is apache looking at that file? The document root
> is /home/fred/web not /home/fred.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew.
>
>
>
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