Setting custom php include path in .htaccess on mac os x

Question

in

/Users/username/Sites/somesite/.htaccess

I have

AllowOverride All
php_value include_path ".:/Users/username/Sites/somesite/inludesFolder:/usr/lib/php"

I have also modified

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

to

AllowOverride All

and restarted websharing, but it's not finding the additional include path. I'd like to avoid modifying the php.ini or setting this additional include path with the PHP

Answer 1

The AllowOverride within the .htaccess file itself isn't legal like that, and might be causing an error that stops further processing. Since the point of AllowOverride is to restrict what .htaccess files can do, it isn't usually useful within an .htaccess file. Try taking it out and see if it works.

Also, rather than modify /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, Mac OS X's configuration is set up so that you drop a file in /etc/apache2/users to configure your own directory. Files in there will persist across system updates and even upgrades!

For example, on my system, the file `/etc/apache2/mark' is:

<Directory "/Users/mark/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>