.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

On Debian 9 i edited the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf

Disabled this line AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes

Added this line Allowoverride All

And it worked fine.

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