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Vishwanath Pratap Singh
Vishwanath Pratap Singh

Reputation: 51

.htaccess:order not allowed here

I am trying to put authentication for accessing my document root directory in apache2... Here's my config file

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        AccessFileName .htaccess
        DocumentRoot /home/user/workspace
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None.htaccess
        </Directory>
        <Directory /home/vishu/workspace>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride AuthConfig
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
......
......

</VirtualHost>

here's my .htaccess file in /home/user/workspace folder:

<FilesMatch >
.....
</FilesMatch>

    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "MY ZONE"
    #AuthBasicProvider file
    AuthUserFile /home/vishu/workspace/passwordfile
    AuthGroupFile /dev/null
    Require valid-user
.....
...

Apache gives .htaccess:order not allowed here error and I am getting 500 error from browser.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 19338

Answers (3)

eljaydub
eljaydub

Reputation: 696

Have a look at your AllowOverride directives. I had this problem too but the following config work for me:

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
    Require all granted
</Directory>

AllowOverride All will probably also work, just depends on how much you want to allow.

Check out these two links for more info:

https://drupal.org/node/10133

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html

Upvotes: 7

farse311
farse311

Reputation: 31

I had this same problem and it was due to the restrictions on my host that didn't allow me to add anything with 'Order allow,deny' or other things. So basically I had to comment out all the stuff that wasn't 'allowed' in order to get it to work.

Might want to switch hosts if this is a problem for you.

Upvotes: 2

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143916

I'm not sure why you're getting "''order not allowed here''" seeing as you don't have an Order directive in your htaccess file, but I'm guessing it's probably something in your / directory because you have override set to None.

You can try adding overrides in the <Directory /> container, something like:

AllowOverride Limit

as per the Apache documentation

Upvotes: 1

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