my .htacces file only contains 2 lines

allowoverride all
php_flag display_errors on


I get a 500 server error, any ideas?

blueboy wrote:
> my .htacces file only contains 2 lines
>
> allowoverride all
> php_flag display_errors on
>
> I get a 500 server error, any ideas?

Check the Apache error log - that usually has more information on what's
wrong.

-Stut

On 5/29/07, Stut <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> blueboy wrote:
> > my .htacces file only contains 2 lines
> >
> > allowoverride all
> > php_flag display_errors on
> >
> > I get a 500 server error, any ideas?
>
> Check the Apache error log - that usually has more information on what's
> wrong.
>
> -Stut
>
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Sounds like you have the good ol' fashion "AllowOverride not
allowed here" problem. This is because it's a core directive, which
can only be used in httpd.conf. AllowOverride is actually the
directive used to allow .htaccess files to be read, and what options
can be set. If you were able to add that to the .htaccess file
itself, it would mean that the admin had no control over what could
and could not be done with the server as a whole.

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On Thu, May 31, 2007 2:10 pm, blueboy wrote:
> my .htacces file only contains 2 lines
>
> allowoverride all
> php_flag display_errors on
>
>
> I get a 500 server error, any ideas?

Check Apache error_log to be sure, and ask on Apache mailing list...

But I will point out that:

The purpose of AllowOverride in httpd.conf is to define what is
allowed to be over-ridden in .htaccess


If AllowOverride worked in .htaccess, then that gives the power to
decide what to override in .htaccess to the people who can edit
..htaccess.

That makes the whole purpose of AllowOverride moot, as now the end
user can override what they are allowed to override and then override
what they weren't supposed to be able to overrirde in the first place.

Thus, I'm going to go out on a limb here, and without actually reading
Apache docs, nor your error_log file, I will predict that
AllowOverride is not allowed within .htaccess :-)

PS
I don't think AllowOverride has any bearing on php_value or php_flag
at all... But maybe it needs to be set in httpd.conf to have +Options
or somesuch...

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