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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:57:07 +0100, Martijn <sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 8/20/07, Dave Morgan <morgadave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > >> <embarressed> >> the problem turned out to be that allowoverride was set to 'none' >> in my site config, so it was ignoring the .htaccess file :-/ >> </embarressed> > >Do you have access to the site config (i.e. the Apache config file)? >In that case, I would put the contents of the .htaccess file there >too. (Any HowTo on .htaccess will start by saying that you should >avoid using .htaccess as much as possible.) > The server is sitting beside me. I tried that originally but apache refused to start up at all. Once things are stable I might try again. The .htaccess file method does have the advantage of not have to restart Apache after every edit, and the web site is (slowly) being rewritten. [snip] >Martijn. Many thanks for all your help Dave (sending from my correct LUG email address this time) -- http://www.morgad.co.uk/index.html DP: http://www.pgdp.net NTP: http://www.pool.ntp.org L&B: http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html