Commit 82e58aba authored by Richard Bowen's avatar Richard Bowen
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Offer a little more detail in troubleshooting problems with .htaccess 

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docs/manual/howto/htaccess.html.en

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    <p>If, on the other hand, you are getting server errors when trying to

    access documents, check your Apache error log. It will likely tell you

    that the directive used in your <code>.htaccess</code> file is not

    permitted. Alternately, it may tell you that you had a syntax error,

    which you will then need to fix.</p>

    permitted.</p>



    <div class="example"><p><code>

    [Sat Aug 09 16:19:20 2008] [alert] [client 192.168.200.51] /var/www/html/.htaccess: RewriteLog not allowed here

    </code></p></div>



    <p>This will indicate either that you've used a directive that is

    never permitted in <code>.htaccess</code> files, or that you simply

    don't have <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> set to

    a level sufficient for the directive you've used. Consult the

    documentation for that particular directive to determine which is

    the case.</p>

    

    <p>Alternately, it may tell you that you had a syntax error in your

    usage of the directive itself.</p>



    <div class="example"><p><code>

    [Sat Aug 09 16:22:34 2008] [alert] [client 192.168.200.51] /var/www/html/.htaccess: RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters

    </code></p></div>



    <p>In this case, the error message should be specific to the

    particular syntax error that you have committed.</p>



</div></div>

<div class="bottomlang">

docs/manual/howto/htaccess.xml

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    <p>If, on the other hand, you are getting server errors when trying to

    access documents, check your Apache error log. It will likely tell you

    that the directive used in your <code>.htaccess</code> file is not

    permitted. Alternately, it may tell you that you had a syntax error,

    which you will then need to fix.</p>

    permitted.</p>



    <example>

    [Sat Aug 09 16:19:20 2008] [alert] [client 192.168.200.51] /var/www/html/.htaccess: RewriteLog not allowed here

    </example>



    <p>This will indicate either that you've used a directive that is

    never permitted in <code>.htaccess</code> files, or that you simply

    don't have <directive module="core">AllowOverride</directive> set to

    a level sufficient for the directive you've used. Consult the

    documentation for that particular directive to determine which is

    the case.</p>

    

    <p>Alternately, it may tell you that you had a syntax error in your

    usage of the directive itself.</p>



    <example>

    [Sat Aug 09 16:22:34 2008] [alert] [client 192.168.200.51] /var/www/html/.htaccess: RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters

    </example>



    <p>In this case, the error message should be specific to the

    particular syntax error that you have committed.</p>



</section>