[RESOLVED] .htaccess not making a difference

[pablodelapena]

hello,

i'm writing a page which uses the Rewriteengine to analyse directory structures.

i've just bought a sexy new mac and it comes with Apache and PHP installed be default.

However, after much problems getting PHP to work I've found another problem.

Apache doesn't seem to recognise the .htaccess file at all. No errors appear when I deliberatly mistype commands in the .htaccess file and it doesn't do any rewriting at all.

httpd.conf seems to be correct. I don't have much experiance in Apache but this line seems right, no?

# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory

for access control information.

#
AccessFileName .htaccess

Can anyone help me please? thanks in advance and apologies if this is the wrong forum - I couldn't find an Apache forum.

[zabmilenko]

This is the wrong place.

Search the apache.org site for AllowOverride

EDIT: Well, I'm not really qualified to say if it's the wrong place or not, but I know that AllowOverride is what you are looking for, and that the Apache site will do way better at telling you how to use it than I will.

[pablodelapena]

Thanks alot, took a bit of snooping around but it works!