Ignore .htaccess in local environment

Server Config
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Hi,

I’ve got some .htaccess files which perform rewrites and redirect errors to logs on my production server. I’d like to keep a copy of the .htaccess files locally, at the same time preventing the actions from firing when in my local environment. Is there a way to either ignore the .htaccess files altogether or check if I’m accessing the .htaccess files locally from within the .htaccess file?

Thanks so much,

Eric

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There are two ways you can do this.

  • Assuming the production domain is different than your development domain, check for the current domain in the RewriteRule

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.myproductiondomain\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^something$ /something-else
  • Assuming you have access to httpd.conf on your localhost change the value of AccessFileName in there. Something like


    AccessFileName .htaccess-dev .htaccess


    The nice thing about this is that Apache will parse the first file that exists and skip all others. So if for some project you only have a .htaccess file it will parse that, but as soon as you add a .htaccess-dev file it will parse that and ignore the .htaccess file.

My personal preference is the second option, since I don’t like environment checks in a production environment.

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Cool! I really like the second solution…