On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:20:42PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote: > Is it too late to ask why you want to mess about with nasty .htaccess > files at all? Can you not simply alter your httpd.conf file (or better, > some included file)?
If you're running a hosting "operation" it's nice to be able to allow folks to set up password protected areas on their sites. Thus you probably don't want a web form being able to edit httpd.conf. > The trouble with .htaccess files, apart from slowing things down, is > that they have a nasty habit of getting forgotten about or 'lost'. When > you come back 6 months later and fiddle about, it can be a while before > trying 'ls -a'... True. Been there myself :) I turn off .htaccess by default and thus having the AllowOverride directive in the <virtualhost> .conf helps remind. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ....................................... http://paulm.com/ "If I could turn clouds to sun, then carefully watches." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
