andreasfriedrich - 1:17 pm on Oct 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

You donīt need the AllowOverride [httpd.apache.org] directive if you specify Options +FollowSymLinks in the configuration file itself. AllowOverride is only used to specify which settings are allowed to me made in .htaccess files.

This is a different situation than the one in Msg #83 [webmasterworld.com] where FollowSymLinks needed to be enabled in the .htaccess file. For that to work one needs to have at least AllowOverride Options privileges.

If you have root access I would opt for Allowoverride None to turn htaccess files off entirely. You can do the configuration in the main configuration file. This saves Apache lots of stat calls to check for .htaccess files. And you wonīt need the FollowSymLink Option at all since it is only neccessary in the per directory context.

Andreas