[BlueOnyx:21768] Re: Web server options

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
>> I do have all checked in both sections as you noted except
>> SymlinksIfOwnerMatches but still see the error in the web server error
>> log. Even after we got the web server restarted due to my other ticket.
> I just checked:
>
> Your /home/.sites&132/site21/web/pub/static/.htaccess has this in it:
>
> # To avoid situations when web server automatically adds extension ...
> Options -MultiViews
>
> So the .htaccess actually turns MultiViews *off*. And your
> httpd/error_log complains: "Option MultiViews not allowed" for the same
> path.
>
> It makes little sense to turn on MultiViews in the GUI, only to have the
> .htaccess trying to turn it back off again.
>
> My recommendation: Turn it off in the GUI and comment that line out in
> the .htaccess and be done with it.
>
> P.S.: I looked at the .htaccess there and I'm really shaking my head at
> the Magento developers. They throw in such a load of Apache core config
> redefines that I'd like to claw out my eyeballs. I mean: Really? Why the
> f*** do they want to redefine the cache expiry for images and Zipfiles?
> Ain't the standards not good enough? Does it *really* improve
> functionality and "user experience" or (gasp!) security? Not by a long
> shot. It *forces* the server admin to run the whole bloody server with
> lowered security settings for Apache.
>
> Even funnier: .htaccess directives like that are totally dependent on
> the webserver. So what if someone runs this on Nginx where all the
> .htaccess-mockery is happily ignored? I'd guess Magento would even run
> better there without them trick-shooting themselves in the foot at our
> expenses.
>
> P.P.S.: Sorry for the rant. I just hate it when developers or such large
> projects behave so utterly ignorant and force us to dance to their
> crappy tune for no good rhyme or reason.
>

Thanks Michael, yeah, I'm not a fan of Magento either. Dealing with it 
for the first time...

-- 
Robert