Re: [cobalt-users] [RAQ4] .htaccess erroring...

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:27, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:
> I'm having a bad day already...
>
> I have a brand new site, gui created, and loading even the simplest of
> .htaccess files causes the whole site to internal server error... any
> ideas?
>
> I've checked the ownership and permissions of .htaccess file and they are
> correct for the admin user of the site - the perms are wide open and it's
> internal server error - perhaps I need more coffee - perhaps I'm missing
> something fundamental - but this IS the first site on this machine with
> .htaccess to my knowledge:
>
> [root web]# ls -ld . ;
> drwxrwsr-x   9 nobody   site7        1024 Dec  1 09:20 .
> [root web]# ls -l .htaccess 404* ;
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 aaahost9 site7          32 Dec  1 09:20 .htaccess
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 aaahost9 site7        1052 Nov 29 16:36 404err.shtml
> [root web]# cat .htaccess
> ErrorDocument   404     /404err.shtml
>
> Any pointers, or more coffee beans greatly appreciated!
>
1) Do you have all patches installed?
2) My .htaccess files are chmod 644
3) Maybe the owner aaahosts9 isn't the correct owner?
4) This must be a frontpage site?????
     There might be a problem using .htaccess on a frontpage site???

Gerald
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