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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Nathan Neulinger <nn...@umr.edu> on 1997/06/27 16:20:32 UTC

Re: [Apache] .htaccess

On Fri, Jun 27, 1997 at 04:06:10PM +0200, Dirk.vanGulik wrote:
> Is it intentional that the '.htaccess' file, when
> present in the ServerRoot and/or one level above the
> DocRoot gets seen (and parsed accordingly) ?
> 
> Dw.

It's my understanding that apache searches for .htaccess files in every 
directory up to and including the directory the file is in. So, if the 
URI: /blah/file.html is retrieved, which maps to 
/my/server/htdocs/blah/file.html, apache will search for .htaccess files in:

/.htaccess
/my/.htaccess
...

This can be turned off by turning off all the overrides for /, and then 
enabling them for the serverroot and any user directory paths.

-- Nathan

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