I am working with the built-in Apache2 on OSX. I moved the document root to a folder on my desktop and made sure that _www
and everyone
have read access. It works fine and great, PHP works, everything works until I add a .htaccess
with this line only:
RewriteEngine on
As soon as I do that, everything in the directory with the file is 403 Forbidden:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /dir/file.txt on this server.
Apache logs show this error:
[error] [client 127.0.0.1] Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /Users/uname/Desktop/localhost/dir/filename.txt
I've gone through httpd.conf
and made sure that I've enabled FollowSymLinks
to no avail:
DocumentRoot "/Users/uname/Desktop/localhost"
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/Users/uname/Desktop/localhost">
Options FollowSymLinks
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
If I comment out RewriteEngine on
in the .htaccess
file, then everything works fine, except rewrite rules, obviously. On OSX 10.8.5, httpd.conf
is located in /etc/apache2
which also has the folder users
containing individual files for uses, e.g. uname.conf
, but I've added symlinks in here same as in the other. I noticed there's also a folder extra
with files like httpd-userdir.conf
, but they don't seem to disable anything.
Where else can FollowSymLinks be turned on (or off)?