.htaccess not working

Question

I am trying to get .htaccess to work under Apache, but the server doesn't seem to honor it.

In httpd.conf I have:

AllowOverride All

I have restarted the server with service httpd restart. I have also done a service httpd reload.

The docs suggest testing the configuration with a garbage .htaccess file. If the server succesfully reads the garbage .htaccess file, this should result in an error when retrieving a page from the directory. But I get no error, suggesting that the server is not parsing the file.

What might be wrong?

Answer 1

Start here. Within <VirtualHost 123.456.7.89>, you need to have the following:

<Directory "/host/domains/www.foobar.com">
Options All MultiViews
AllowOverride All
# or AllowOverride AuthConfig
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Source: http://forums.devshed.com/apache-development-15/htaccess-not-being-accessed-8977.html