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.htaccess on LAMP 14.04?

  • Posted June 7, 2014

Trying to lock down www/html/ using .htaccess on a LAMP 14.04 deployment, and having a tough time. Documentation is all over the place without a clear answer.

Tried updating 000-default.conf Tried updating .htaccess to point to .htpasswd Did lots of restarts of apache2

Nothing worked.

Suggestions?

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hansott • November 5, 2014

You should also:

  1. Search for <Directory /var/www/>...</directory> in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
  2. Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride ALL
  3. then restart apache by using sudo service apache2 restart
hansott • November 5, 2014

You should also:

  1. Search for <Directory /var/www/>...</directory> in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
  2. Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride ALL
  3. then restart apache by using sudo service apache2 restart
hansott • October 23, 2014

I don’t know if you still need this but…

I had problems with this as well. First make sure you have a new droplet with the LAMP template.

The solution:

  1. Upload your website to the /var/www/html directory
  2. chmod -R 777 /var/www/html
  3. Check your htaccess file with: cat /var/www/html/.htaccess
  4. If the htaccess is not correct modify the file so it contains the correct rules
  5. Enable the mod rewrite: sudo a2enmod rewrite
  6. Restart your server: sudo service apache2 restart
  7. It should be working now! Don’t touch the apache config files.
bellerophon • August 16, 2016

Thank you. It worked for me :)

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bda.awk • June 18, 2014

Well…

In this tutorial [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-14-04 ] we learn to create a user and give you root privileges ok. Good. I did it correctly and now looked at the file and is equal to the tutorial.

I’m trying to use this option suggested by @astarr and the answer I have is can not create directory ‘/etc/htaccess/’: Permission denied

Can I get using root?

Andrew SB • June 9, 2014

In order to enable an .htaccess file, there are a few steps you need to take. In /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf you need to add:

<pre> <Directory “/var/www/html”> AllowOverride All </Directory> </pre>

Then create the file /var/www/html/.htaccess with the contents:

<pre> AuthUserFile /etc/htaccess/.htpasswd AuthName “Authorization Required” AuthType Basic require valid-user </pre>

Then run:

<pre> sudo mkdir /etc/htaccess/ sudo htpasswd -c /etc/htaccess/.htpasswd user1 </pre>

And finally, restart apache:

<pre> sudo service apache2 restart </pre>