[Webdev] htaccess and <Directory>

Thu Sep 7 18:10:39 IST 2000

Ok, having uploaded the files (thanks all) I now have the following
problem.

In the "/web" dir on the host I have a htaccess file with the
following:
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AddType                       application/x-httpd-php3   .html
php3_include_path					/web/inc
php3_auto_append_file         footer.inc
php3_auto_prepend_file        header.inc

What this does is treat all HTML files as PHP files, and stick a
header and footer on each.  The problem is that there is a directory
"/web/stats" to which I do not have write access (ie I can't stick a
new htaccess file there) and whose content is supplied by some stats
program.  When I try to view http://www.foobar.com/stats/index.html
thru my web browser, PHP (as directed in the top-level htaccess) tries
to prepend header.inc and append footer.inc.  This results in garbled
output as there are now multiple <HTML>, <HEAD> and <BODY> tags, etc.

So I tried to add this in the top-level htaccess:
<Directory /web/stats>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
php3_auto_append_file        none
php3_auto_prepend_file       none
</Directory>

but this gives me a 500 error when I try to view the stats?

Any ideas why this doesn't work?

Thanks

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