While reinstalling the owncloud in Ubuntu I got this error message on screen when I hit the URL of owncloud – “Your data directory and files are probably accessible from the internet because the .htaccess file does not work”.
To solve this issue. We have to only correct our apache configuration file.
In owncloud.conf file . Edit the line as given below inside VirtualHost tag.
AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all
After this restart the apache2
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Given below is reference of my owncloud.conf file
root@sharad:/etc/apache2/conf.d# cat owncloud.confServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/owncloud/ root@sharad:/etc/apache2/conf.d#Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Never mind, got it. In addition to what you posted in this articles, I also navigated to /etc/apache2/ then ran vi —> vi apache2.conf and edited the ” section of the file (about 75% scrolled down) by changing AllowOverride NONE to AllowOverride ALL . Again, the steps were very similar to this post.
Hi Sharad! Just wondering if you have installed owncloud on Ubuntu 13.10? I can’t seem to get rid of the htaccess error for the life of me! Thanks for all the great articles and walkthroughs.