.htaccess not looked at in aliased directory

Hi all, really appreciate some help on this!

All my files within /var/www/html obey their .htaccess fine, including LIMIT
commands and php_flag settings.

However, I have an Alias in my httpd.conf like this...

Alias /squirrelmail /var/www/squirrelmail/

and if I put a .htaccess in /var/www/squirrelmail, it is not even looked at,
I could do a deny from all and it is ignored.

Is there any reason for this?

Thanks a lot!

Bix.

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:11:43 +0100, The Other Guy responded to a post
from "Bix" <demonnews DeleteThis @NOSPAMPLEASEbix.cc> who wrote in
alt.apache.configuration:

 >Alias /squirrelmail /var/www/squirrelmail/

Try
Alias /squirrelmail /var/www/squirrelmail

if the first parameter ends with a slash, the second should as well
(or include the slash in the first one and leave the second with it,
but that is not as good as the first solution).

See <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#alias" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#alias</a>

Also, have you set up the aliased directory container to include

AllowOverride AuthConfig

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride</a>

You should put your htaccess info in that same directory container as
opposed to having the separate file in the directory.

HTH
TOG

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