Re: [users@httpd] .htaccess file outside of web space

2012-04-05 Thread Pete Houston
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:26:29PM -0400, Phil Smith wrote: Am I interpreting what I'm seeing correctly or could I possibly have a configuration problem? You are interpreting it correctly, there's no configuration problem. This is the way that access files are applied as in the documentation.

[users@httpd] .htaccess file outside of web space

2012-04-04 Thread Phil Smith
I noticed that when I placed an .htaccess file outside of web space, the .htaccess file was respected by Apache. I found this surprising. Say DocumentRoot is /home/joe/public_html so that /home/joe is in a path leading to web space, but outside of web space. An .htaccess file: /home/joe/.htaccess