.htaccess file not being read (“Options -Indexes” in .htaccess file not working)

Question

I created an .htaccess file with only the following line:

Options -Indexes

However, the index is still shown for the directory.<

Answer 1

I solved this problem on RHEL by editing file /etc/http/conf/httpd.conf I changed all

AllowOverride None

To

AllowOverride All

Also you can check httpd.conf AllowOverride by following command on RHEL

grep -i AllowOverride /etc/conf/conf/httpd.conf