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.
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