.htaccess on OSX 10.3.3 is driving me mad!

belloq

Joined: 2004-06-03
Posts: 43
Posted: Fri, 2004-07-16 03:58

I really, really didn't want to have to post here about this, but I've been up for two nights trying all sorts of fixes and have not had luck.

I'm going to move the standard sig data up here so it's more obvious:

System wrote:
Gallery URL (optional but very useful): http://24.21.28.72/modules/gallery/setup
Gallery version: 1.4.3-pl2
Apache version: Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.6
PHP version (don't just say PHP 4, please): 4.3.6
Graphics Toolkit: NetPBM, jhead
Operating system: MacOS X 10.3.3
Web browser/version (if applicable): Safari 1.2.2 (v125.8), Firefox 0.9

The problem: Gallery Config is giving me the standard message about Apache and .htaccess: "Apache is not obeying your .htaccess file. Try entering the following into your web server's httpd.conf file"

Here are the pertinent parts of my httpd.conf file:

<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents/modules/gallery">
    AllowOverride Options FileInfo
</Directory>

I've stopped and started the web server many times, but always this error. I've verified file permissions. Here's a directory listing permissions for .htaccess:-rw-rw-rw- 1 www admin 0 15 Jul 19:07 .htaccess
httpd.conf runs the webserver under the www user account.

Now, the bizarre thing about this is, I had gallery running fine under OSX 10.2.8. I installed 10.3.3 onto a different partition, copied over my web files and all worked fine except for Gallery. I suppose I could start over from scratch, but I really don't want to, and don't think I should have to. I am about to boot back into 10.2.8 to see if it still works fine there. I imagine it will.

However, if anyone had any tips, hints, suggestions of things to look into, such as some other settings in the httpd.conf file which may be nullifying the AllowOverride directives, I'd really appreciate it. Of course, if there is information about problems with this version of Apache or PHP, then that would be useful to know as well.

Thanks!
 
belloq

Joined: 2004-06-03
Posts: 43
Posted: Fri, 2004-07-16 04:10

Wow, see. I knew I should have waited just another few minutes.

I did go ahead and replace 1.4.2-pl2 with 1.4.3-rc1 and it worked almost instantly. Anyone care to guess at the original problem anyway? :)
 
dhype

Joined: 2004-07-21
Posts: 3
Posted: Thu, 2004-07-22 23:21

what was the problem? I'm having the same issue right now, damn panther.
 
belloq

Joined: 2004-06-03
Posts: 43
Posted: Sat, 2004-07-24 01:15

Well, as I posted, I dropped a clean install of the latest version of gallery into /modules/ and it was happy.