Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 04/11/06 09:42

Steven Saunderson <Phelum@Syd.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:52:35 GMT, MP <mpuputti@NOSPAMyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>So I seem to be missing the answer on : "How to activate the new
>>.htaccess settings?".
>>And if the answer is "Simply upload the file, that's all!", then either
>>(i) my ISP doesn't allow me to use .htaccess, or (ii) some attributes of
>>the file are still wrong. Right?
>
> Can you ask your ISP ?

Given the abbreviated address www.elisanet.fi/matti.puputti/ , I'm afraid the
answer will be (i). This particular service provider (Elisa a.k.a. Kolumbus)
does not let its customers affect server behavior with .htaccess, i.e. the
server has been set to ignore .htaccess. This applies to the normal web space
that private people have as customers. There are more expensive alternatives,
sold basically as business web space. It's price differentiation of a kind.
In other words, they intentionally reduce the functionality, and you have to
pay considerably more to get what many people regard as normal service.

(I once asked them about this. The answer was obscure and mentioned "security
issues", of course.)

> The file (AddType application/octet-stream .kmz
> .gdb)is definitely there.

Yes, and it is world-readable, as it should be. When the server has been set
to use customer .htaccess files, nothing more needs to be done than to upload
a correct .htaccess file and check the protections (read access to all).

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