Apache .htaccess <ifModule not allowed here

Question

Running Apache on Ubuntu Precise, with PHP 5.5

Trying to access my var/www/ gives me a 500.

/var/log/apache2/error.log

shows:

/var/www/web/.htaccess: <IfModule> not allowed here

my .htaccess is:

DirectoryIndex app.php <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)/(.*)::\2$ RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1] RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$ RewriteRule ^app\.php(/(.*)|$) %{ENV:BASE}/$2 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f RewriteRule .? - [L] RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}/app.php [L] </IfModule> <IfModule !mod_rewrite.c> <IfModule mod_alias.c> RedirectMatch 302 ^/$ /app.php/ </IfModule> </IfModule> 

Into my apache.conf I added:

<Directory /> AllowOverride ALL </Directory> 

And it worked after I restarted Apache.

Answer 1

You need to configure your apache to enable configuration from the .htaccess file. So in the directory section be sure you have the option

Allowoverride ALL 

for more information more information about allowoverride.

In your setup if you use only mod_rewrite maybe you can set only FileInfo , I always set the Options parameter to SymLinksIfOwnerMatch to be able to perform redirection to other sites.

Allowoverride FileInfo Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch 

I hope it will help, if you already set this configuration please add information with your virtualhost configuration.