Check AllowOverride value using PHP?

Question

Is there anyway to use PHP to check the value of AllowOverride too see if .htaccess will have any effect?

Answer 1

Easiest way

Add: show-error in the first line on your page an load domain via browser to trigger a 50x error

Another method that is terrible but guaranteed to work independently from specific Apache modules is to programmatically write gibberish into the .htaccess file, then to make a curl request like above, and to check for a 500 status code. If it throws a 500, the .htaccess file got interpreted. But as said, this is terrible - if possible, go with the headers method instead.