03-07-2011, 03:47 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Reading .htaccess from parent directory, above child VirtualHost's DocumentRoot
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Originally Posted by mistwang
I think it has been supported already. If you find that it does not work properly, let us know.
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The issue, as I am seeing it right now, is that the VirtualHost is not honoring the .htaccess in the parent directory (which is a different VirtualHost) as cPanel created the directory hierarchy.
Are these separated in the performance (or security) model, to not walk the directory tree up to the DocumentRoot for parent .htaccess files?
eg:
Code:
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/htdocs
</VirtualHost>
Code:
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1>
ServerName test.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/htdocs/test
</VirtualHost>
Will test.example.com ever read the .htaccess from /var/www/example.com/htdocs, or will it start at /var/www/example.com/htdocs/test? I can completely understand the reasoning behind starting at /var/www/example.com/htdocs/test for performance or even for security, but I am not sure if that fits in with the Apache methods that are expected (where every directory from / on up to the cwd are checked for an .htaccess).
An optional flag in Server->General->HT Access for "Apache style inherit" with a warning that it could impact performance would be nice to see.
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