AllowOverride Now Working?

[ShelaghG]

I'm trying to install an application called Gallery (

http://gallery.menalto.com/).

When I run setup I get the following error:

Apache is not obeying your .htaccess file. Try entering the following into your web server's httpd.conf file:

<Directory /home/thewhole/public_html/gallery>
AllowOverride Options FileInfo
</Directory>

I've tried adding this to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and restarting Apache and it makes no difference. I've also tried changing the global AllowOverride setting from None to All and restarting Apache and I still get the error.

I have just moved from a shared server to a dedicated server and have never had to do this before so I may be missing something really obvious.

I did have a quick peek at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf on the old server before my account was deleted and AllowOverride was set to None and I know I didn't have to ask them to anything special to get this s/w to work. This is driving me nuts, mainly because I suspect I am missing something obvious!

 

[RhythmAce]

Do you have 'Options' between AllowOverride and FileInfo? That would be wrong. Also make sure you have this directive in your globals:

AccessFileName .htaccess

I don't know why it wouldn't be there already.

 

[ShelaghG]

AccessFileName .htaccess is in there

I wasn't sure what you meant about the 'Options' - is it in the wrong place or should it not be there at all? I tried it both ways and it made no difference.

I also tried this :
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be &quot;All&quot;, or any combination of &quot;Options&quot;, &quot;FileInfo&quot;,
# &quot;AuthConfig&quot;, and &quot;Limit&quot;
#
AllowOverride All

and I still get the error message from Gallery about Apache not obeying the .htaccess

 

[RhythmAce]

Are you restarting apache after the changes to httpd.conf? If that's not it, can you copy and paste that section of your directory container here.