RewriteEngine works in .htaccess but not virtualhost??

[wootwoot]

Hi, I am trying to optimize my apache server so I am getting rid of .htaccess files. I am running Apache2 on FreeBSD

So in the httpd.conf file I set:

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
["AllowOverride None" prevents apache from looking for .htaccess files]

I then take the function .htaccess file and essentially put it into the VirtualHost entry for the target domain:

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /

http://www/meyers.com

ServerName meyers.com
ServerAlias

http://www.meyers.com

ErrorDocument 404 /404.rub

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/secret(.*)$

https://www.meyers.com/secret/$1

[L,R]
</VirtualHost>


Now the above code does NOT work. It works fine when it in an .htaccess file but it does not work when I move it into the httpd.conf file, set AlloweOverride to "None", and restart apache.

I am truly lost as to what oculd be the problem. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

 

[feherke]

Hi

First at all, get more debug information :

RewriteLog /var/log/rewrite_log
RewriteLogLevel 9

Feherke.

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