Can web server settings override .htaccess file ?

Question

I have build a website. in that website there is section to download file using php script. our company has two ISP connections. one ISP allows to dowload file but other blocks it.

i thought this is browser problem but after hit and try methods, i come to conclusion that this is ISP problem. Am i right. please help me out.

Answer 1

Some files' extension might be prevented from downloading by the web server configuration.

Answer 2

Technically, it's not the webserver that overrides the .htaccess but the other way around, and some settings indeed may not be allowed to be overridden in htaccess from the server configuration.