[thelist] Turning on .htaccess in Apache Mac OS X

[Alex Robinson]

>What am I doing wrong?

Did you restart the server?

Yes, I'm sure you did.

It's quite possible that the httpd.conf has further instructions that 
are, er, overriding the AllowOverride directive.

Indeed, a quick google later

http://www.clagnut.com/blog/350/

reveals that you also have to edit the users' *.conf files too. Apparently.


>I just want to mess with content types in one test directory, so it's
>definitely a local change that shouldn't be propagated to the entire
>server.

Something along the lines of

    <Location /foo/bar>
    DefaultType text/xml
    </Location>

should work just fine