Information about the .htaccess file

Hi all

I wanted to ask if anybody knew a good info "package" regarding the famous .htaccess file. I know you can set all sorts of things with it. But I wanted see exactly what kinds of things you can set?

Here's a good starter... http://wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

//NoXcuz

Start here -> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/directives.html

Pick a directive, say AuthName:

Syntax: AuthName auth-domain
Context: directory, .htaccess
Override: AuthConfig
Status: core

At the Context line, you can see directory and .htaccess, which means you can specify AuthName within <Directory> or in .htaccess.
Whenever you see a directive's context that doesn't specify .htaccess, then such directive is not allowed in .htaccess.

Now take a look at the Override line. As you can see, you need AuthConfig, that is, say http://domain.com/private/.htaccess you need this in httpd.conf:

<Directory "/path/to/docroot/private">
...
AllowOverride AuthConfig
...
</Directory>

If you don't specify a <Directory "/path/to/docroot/private">, then you still need to specify AllowOverride AuthConfig at ->
<Directory "/path/to/docroot">, because it's inherited from its parent directory unless you override it.

Thanks to you both. I'll be taking a look. I just hope I'm over my head here. Freebsd's explanation might have gone over but I'll try make sense out of it

Take care