I’ll chalk most of this one up to me being a bit of a noob on .htaccess files but wow, this is really confusing. Now that we’ve migrated our main site over to IW panel we are having massive .htaccess problems.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why the .htaccess is not working as expected in IW panel. Granted I’ve found a few bugs in the panel itself (when more than one page of .htaccess files are shown… it’s a problem) but I’m just not getting expected behavior out of it when it does work as expected.
To me there seems to be something I’m missing.
- setting a directory to be browsable still throws a forbidden error. (I’ve chowned & chmod so much I’m stuffed)
- setting site wide 403 redirects causes browsing not to work (even if it did)
- setting browsable with index files (index.htm, etc…) doesn’t work
I can’t seem to find a reference that points to IW’s hierarchy for .htaccess files… For instance how does setting site wide .htaccess affect directory .htaccess? How does .htaccess affect subdomains and secondary domains if they reside in the same file folder structure?
Any help with this would be appreciated. I also have a ticket open for the bugs I’ve found, but that’s a secondary issue.