.htaccess Status

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If you are receiving the following error 500:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@hosting.zymic.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Recently limited functionality has been allowed within .htaccess, this allows any directives for limiting the availability, so for a quick example:

CODE

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all

This can protect a directory.

There is however a caveat that comes along with only allowing this. Any directives which do not fall under the scope of 'Limit' will cause the server to choke and spit out the above 500 error.

To fix it, either comment out all other directives in your .htaccess, or move/delete the offending .htaccess.

Commenting in .htaccess is a line prefixed with '#'.

It is not at this time possible to use block statements around the limits.

CODE

<Directory /foo>
# this would not work
</DIrectory>

We are working on a solution.

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please mod_rewrite enable