[thelist] Steps towards permanent URL's

Raditha Dissanayake jabber at raditha.com
Mon Sep 29 11:38:26 CDT 2003


Hi,
.htaccess will not work if your main httpd.conf has the following directive.
AllowOverride none

and httpd.conf files usually do have this directive.


Keith Underdown wrote:

> Hi There
>
> I am try to move to permanent URLS but the Apache learning curve is 
> pretty big and many of the articles written don't mean much to me.
>
> So far I have added a .htaccess file to my root directory containing:
>
> DirectoryIndex index
>
> As I understand it this telling Apache that if somebody tries to 
> access a file called index with no extension then it looks for 
> instances ov index.*, picks the best one and tells the browser to 
> treat it in the way implied by the extension. In my case I have 
> index.php. When I tried this locally it worked fine and invoked 
> index.php. So I could hide the technology.
>
> I uploaded the .htaccess file to my site and it is not having the same 
> effect, www.qconsultancy.co.uk gives me a directory listing for the 
> site (highly undesirable), www.qconsultancy.co.uk/index gives me a 404 
> not found error, only www.qconsultancy.co.uk/index.php works.
>
> So that's one problem, what's different about the way my ISP has 
> Apache set up by default?
>
> This is but the first step on a long quest so I'd be grateful for your 
> help!
>
> Keith



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