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

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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?


yes - unless they released any last week

>2) My .htaccess files are chmod 644


I just tried that - no joy

>3) Maybe the owner aaahosts9 isn't the correct owner?


yes, that's the correct id and the only login on the site, plus they have admin rights.

>4) This must be a frontpage site?????


ahem... nope.

>     There might be a problem using .htaccess on a frontpage site???


Not the case in this site - there are NO frontpage sites on this whole server.... ;{)

Any more ideas?


>Gerald
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