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Comment Out htacess problem

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03 January 2011, 4:21

hi everyone, 

i want to install mahara on our webserver. 

i just copied the htdoc file on my website in ...org/mahara/here are the mahara files

if i start the website i get: 

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [no address given] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache Server at www.international-literacy-management.org Port 80

i read at the troubleshouting site that i should comment out the htaccess file. 

i found the file, but i don´t know what comment out means. what should i do? 

 

thanks,

 

florian

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Re: Comment Out htacess problem

18 February 2011, 5:26

the .htaccess file contains code that the server will read, it sets some security permissions so nobody can fiddle with your mahara code - such as read/edit your config.php which has your database password in plain text.

"commenting out" means inserting characters that will tell the server to ignore that instruction, ie. the first few lines of .htacccess look like this:

php_flag register_globals off
php_flag magic_quotes_runtime off
php_flag magic_quotes_sybase off

to comment out a line put the hash character "#" in front of it, like this:

# this line is a comment and the server will ignore it.

 

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