Confixx and htaccess

any way to make htaccess work under Confixx?

[lbobke]

I recently set up a domain (hobby site) with a host that offers MYSQL, php and many other features for a very good price.
There's just one big drawback: they are using Confixx and any attempt to use a htaccess file immediately results in an internal server error.
One "solution" I found on the web was for the host to
include the following in httpd.conf before including the confixx_vhost.conf:

<Directory "/home/www/web1">
 Options +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Multiviews
 AllowOverride All

However, according to my ISP this is not an option, due to security concerns.
Any ideas (apart from moving to another ISP)?

Laurenz

[electrolinux]

Any attempt, really?

Ask them how you can password protect an area without creating an .htaccess file.

If that's not an option, then maybe you can find a less paranoiac web hosting service ;-)

[lbobke]

Thanks for the answer - actually, password protection is possible from within Confixx, but there's no way to rewrite addresses (for example to make dynamic urls more spider-friendly).

Laurenz

[hakre]

this is really a prob with confixx and your hoster need to change the options for you to have mod_rewrite in action. if he does not do, you can't to anything about that then just quitting the hoster. maybe you should tell him that with all the other hosters mod_rewrite is no problem at all. i know of a high secure hoster who offers this, too. it's not a security issue more a configuration issue.