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Mark Pruce
Mark Pruce

Reputation: 945

Hidden Directories on My Localhost Server (Related to htaccess)

I've discovered that some directories on my localhost disappear (or are hidden) when they contain an htaccess file with the following line of code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

As soon as I comment that line out, save the file and refresh my browser - the directory reappears. I'm running a XAMPP server on my Mac OS 10.6.8 - not sure what other information would be helpful here. I've commented out and uncommented all other lines of code in the file and they don't affect this situation either way.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2238

Answers (2)

Mark Pruce
Mark Pruce

Reputation: 945

Well a friend of mine helped me figure out this out and I'll post here for future searchers.

The problem was that AllowOverride was set to different things in different places - it was set to All in httpd.conf (correctly) but inside that file http-userdir.conf was included and inside THAT file, AllowOverride did not include Options.

So Apache saw the Options in the htaccess command and hid the entire directory - to punish me for doing something I wasn't allowed to do.

If you are in the same situation - CHECK THE LOGS here:

xamppfiles/logs/error_log

The log said exactly what was happening and why.

Upvotes: 2

JScoobyCed
JScoobyCed

Reputation: 10413

This options enable or disable the display of SymLinks, i.e. symbolic links (using the ln or similar command). In a higher level Apache configuration, I think you have SymLinks disabled. When you comment out this option, you add ( the + before the option) re-enables the symlinks for the current folder. I guess your directory is a link to another directory

Ref Apache Core module

Upvotes: 0

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