enable htaccess site by site or server wide

[mspIggy]

we need htacess site by site or server wide...

as is suspected - server error when i load now...

new install ubuntu server 8.04

how can this be done?

what file needs to be edited?

what edit needs to be added...

many thanks

[till]

Please post the exact error message that you get.

[mspIggy]

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
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a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request
please....

how is htaccess enabled...

thank you

[mspIggy]

finally i found this

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very easy to do!

many thanks to hans
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Probably .htaccess files are not allowed on your system.
You can add the following to the Apache directives field of your website:

<Directory "/var/www/web1/web">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Where, web1 is your own webnumber.
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Hans