.htaccess “Options not allowed here”

Question

I have this in my .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks

And I get the following error in the apache error_log:

.htaccess: Options not allowed he         


        

Answer 1

I guess there is a global AllowOverride setting in your apache config which disallows this. Can you grep for AllowOverride in your httpd.conf?