Mac OSX Apache ignoring .htaccess files

[Foamcow]

I'm using an Xserve as a web development server in house.

It's mostly been fine, but I recently had need to build a site that makes extensive use of .htaccess rewrites.

For some reason my .htaccess files are being ignored.

Out of the box, the Apache installed with OSX has

AllowOverride None

in the httpd.conf file

I have set this to

AllowOverride All

However my .htaccess files still seem to be ignored.

Can anyone offer any help here as to why the files are being ignored?

<honk>*:O)</honk>

Earl & Thompson Marketing - Marketing Agency Services in Gloucestershire

 

[mbrooks]

Did you restart Apache after the config change?

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info

 

[Foamcow]

I did restart it yes.

It appears that perhaps Apache isn't using the directives in http.conf

I have a feeling that because I am using the 'out of the box' version of Apache that ships with OSX and have set up the server with the Server Admin control panel that it's using a different set of .conf files!

To test this I wrote a bogus line into httpd.conf and restarted Apache. It still worked fine.

Digging around I have found a few .conf files in /etc/httpd/sites These seem to relate to my control panel setup. Sadly I don't know enough to edit these within the terminal.

<honk>*:O)</honk>

Earl & Thompson Marketing - Marketing Agency Services in Gloucestershire