How do I know if .htaccess is supported or where to put it?

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    I work with a company that insists on using their own server for their various websites and even though their server guy swears up and down that it supports .htaccess and that it should work if I just put it in a folder, every one I have tried has had no response. I even uploaded a .htaccess file with nothing but random characters to try to "break" the site to see if it was reading it and still nothing!

    Does anyone know how else I can check if a server actually supports .htaccess? Or any other ideas on where it may need to be placed. they have their server setup weird (at least to me).

    Any sample, basic starter .htaccess files I could try (all the ones I found are already all coded up and I just need a clean base.

    any help is always appreciated.

    Thanks!
     
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  2. codecs

    codecs Peon

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    You can put your .htaccess on the root folder of your server. You can ask it to your who ever host your server or read the FAQ of your hosting. You can search google for sample of .htaccess scripts.
     
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    bestbeach Banned

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    you can put .htaccess in public html on your root folder..what platform do you use?
     
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  5. whose

    whose Peon

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    Dug a little deeper and found the httpd.conf file

    The virtual hosts are set up as follows:
    
<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName   website.com
   DocumentRoot "/www/website/docs"
   ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ "/www/website/cgi-bin/"
   ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
</VirtualHost>
    Code (markup):
    Noticed that on some there is 
    
<Directory /www/website/docs/subfolder>
   AllowOverride All
</Directory>
    Code (markup):
    Do I need to have the server guys make sure that <Directory> chunk for the domain I want .htaccess for is set to the "/docs folder?

    If so, will it trickle down to subfolders automatically? we have some test folders setup before we relaunch an updated site and we are wanting to 301 redirect the old files to the new one via .htaccess when the time comes.

    Thanks for everyone's help so far.

    @drakul: thanks! Great link, Bookmarked :)
     
    whose, Jan 21, 2009 IP