.htaccess file Not Being Read

Question

My .htaccess file is not being read, I have put a .htaccess file in /var/www/html which contains

Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header add Access-Control-Allow-Headers "origin, x-requested-with, content-type"
Header add Access-Control-Allow-Methods "PUT, GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS"

And then my http.conf file looks like this

ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"
<Directory />
AllowOverride none
Require all denied
</Directory>

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

<Directory "/var/www">
AllowOverride None
# Allow open access:
Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Require all granted
</Directory>

And the file I want to access in is in my /var/www/html folder but when I try to access it form another sever I keep getting this error

Image from origin 'http://serverB' has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://example.com' is therefore not allowed access.

Why isn't my .htacces being read and how can I make it be read?

Thanks

`ls -l` will show permissions on files, maybe there will be a clue. — Dariusz Bączkowski, Dec 07 '15 at 04:20
@ESYSCODER this listed the permissions of files in my root directory Im not sure how that helps? — iqueqiorio, Dec 07 '15 at 04:27
I was thinking you will add results of it to the answer. Are permission on .htaccess allowing apache to read it? User/group match apache process user/group? — Dariusz Bączkowski, Dec 07 '15 at 04:31
@ESYSCODER my .htaccess file is at `/var/www/html` not in `/root` and the owner and group of the `.htaccess` file is unknown do you I need to set that to apache? — iqueqiorio, Dec 07 '15 at 04:38
Apache has to be able to read it, in `/var/www/html` do `chmod 0644 .htaccess` to allow everyone to read it or change user to apache user. — Dariusz Bączkowski, Dec 07 '15 at 04:41
I set the Permission on .htaccess to 0666 and still it is not being read — iqueqiorio, Dec 07 '15 at 04:43
how do you requesting image from another server: ajax, curl ? show details of request — RomanPerekhrest, Dec 08 '15 at 14:54
What happens if you add a new line `ThisShouldCrash` to your .htaccess? — phihag, Dec 10 '15 at 00:48
Are you trying to access a font file? Is the headers module enabled in httpd? Pasting the full request path/response you're getting from server will be helpful — Chibueze Opata, Dec 12 '15 at 12:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '15 at 05:11

You need to allow the AllowOverride All in the /html file as well, Im not sure why but I had the same problem also make sure to restart the apache after you save the .htaccess file otherwise the changes will not apply.

Also make sure that you do not have any other .htaccess files anywhere else as using add could add the headers extra time cause error.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 10 '15 at 11:51

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Try adding this line to the .htaccess file.

I was facing the same issue whenever I use reverse proxy since it was my dev machine I just add these lines into the .htaccess file and it solved this issue.

<FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
  </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

edited Dec 10 '15 at 11:51

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answered Dec 10 '15 at 11:43

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Is mod_headers enabled on the server? check with this command:

apache2ctl -M

If not, enable it using this command:

sudo a2enmod headers

After that restart the apache server.

If it still does not work checkout the following answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13871027/2507790

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Dec 07 '15 at 08:07

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I got `-bash: apache2ctl: command not found` when running the first command and `sudo: a2enmod: command not found` when running the second command – iqueqiorio Dec 07 '15 at 08:08
use this for centos: httpd -M – Vikas Dec 07 '15 at 08:19
when I do that I got a long list of moduels – iqueqiorio Dec 07 '15 at 08:31
Checkout this answer for a better understanding of apache modules on centos: http://serverfault.com/a/56435/325169 . And just to make sure that htaccess is being read by the server, try something else, maybe a redirect from the htaccess file – Vikas Dec 07 '15 at 08:37

.htaccess file Not Being Read

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