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.htaccess for Dreamhost users « Open Classifieds - Support — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:16:45 +0000

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By: Chema

Chema — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:22:32 +0000

just try to open a ticket they are kind of responsive ;)

good luck!

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:15:15 +0000

That cool… understand.

I am really a newbie with the htaccess stuff… any thoughts on what I could do, or where I could look for answers. If it is a Dreamhost issue, what do I need to ask them to turn on/off to get this to work?

Thanks a ton for your help!

By: Chema

Chema — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:14:21 +0000

I’m sorry I’m not using dreamhost anymore, I’ve got sick of them and sooo many trouble with them….

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:48:35 +0000

I seem to be running into something like this on my Dreamhost set up. Trying to run a new app that I just got and I keep getting a 403 Forbidden message. The .htaccess file looks like this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|install) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

That last line seems to be causing all the trouble. If I take it out, then the 403 goes away, but I get a “No input file specified” message so I guess the app needs that line to work. Dreamhost support says they can not debug .htaccess errors and the app writers say the error is with the server so I am all alone out here. Do you know how I might fix this or look for a work around? It is frustrating!

By: Chema

Chema — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:28:43 +0000

Great news then, but for the record as well, if it’s like this was not just for few hours…at least 2 days as far as I know.

regards

By: Augustin

Augustin — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:23:13 +0000

For the record, I asked for confirmation from Dreamhost on this issue, and this is what they replied:

There was a temporary change in a security policy for a few hours once
that was made by accident that caused that to not work, however, this was
quickly reverted and these should work just fine.

“this may only affect some PS servers” is completely false.

This means that “Options +FollowSymlinks” should work across all Dreamhost servers.

By: Chema

Chema — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:07:57 +0000

Hello Augustin.

Thanks for your feedback, I use a Dremhost PS and works faster thn my shadow ;) I’m really happy with it, almost no downtime and really cheap. And managed!

I think the htaccess problem may be only in some PS…no idea…I just found that this happened to me…

About drupal: It’s really powerful, but is a big pain in the ass, just like WP, they are extremely slow…

regards

By: Augustin

Augustin — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:41:13 +0000

Your blog was forwarded to the Drupal development list. I enquired with Dreamhost and the emphatically replied that they do NOT disallow “Options +FollowSymlinks”. My .htaccess there still contain that line and it does not cause any error.

You mention you spoke to their support desk and that they admitted the change in policy. Have they reverted their policy? As I said, my site work fine with +FollowSymlinks and I got a different reply from them.
On the other hand, speaking of Drupal, their shared hosting plan (not their PS plan) is not suited for even a small, low traffic Drupal web site. They are very aggressive at killing non-interactive scripts and processes that “take too much resources”, so much that a normal Drupal cron run more often than not is killed before it can complete properly. Instead, a non existing internal_error.html page is being accessed. Add to that the known problem that Drupal will cache the resulting error message which has for effect that Drupal cron will stop working altogether even on a small site.

I am not particularly happy about that.

Back to topic: maybe you can try if Options +FollowSymlinks work again on your site.