</code></p></div>
</div>
- <p>What you can put in these files is determined by the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code>
- directive. This directive specifies, in categories, what directives
- will be honored if they are found in a <code>.htaccess</code> file. If
- a directive is permitted in a <code>.htaccess</code> file, the
+ <p>In general, <code>.htaccess</code> files use the same syntax as
+ the <a href="../configuring.html#syntax">main configuration
+ files</a>. What you can put in these files is determined by the
+ <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> directive. This
+ directive specifies, in categories, what directives will be
+ honored if they are found in a <code>.htaccess</code> file. If a
+ directive is permitted in a <code>.htaccess</code> file, the
documentation for that directive will contain an Override section,
- specifying what value must be in <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> in order
- for that directive to be permitted.</p>
+ specifying what value must be in <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> in order for that
+ directive to be permitted.</p>
<p>For example, if you look at the documentation for the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset">AddDefaultCharset</a></code>
directive, you will find that it is permitted in <code>.htaccess</code>
</example>
</note>
- <p>What you can put in these files is determined by the <directive
- module="core">AllowOverride</directive>
- directive. This directive specifies, in categories, what directives
- will be honored if they are found in a <code>.htaccess</code> file. If
- a directive is permitted in a <code>.htaccess</code> file, the
+ <p>In general, <code>.htaccess</code> files use the same syntax as
+ the <a href="../configuring.html#syntax">main configuration
+ files</a>. What you can put in these files is determined by the
+ <directive module="core">AllowOverride</directive> directive. This
+ directive specifies, in categories, what directives will be
+ honored if they are found in a <code>.htaccess</code> file. If a
+ directive is permitted in a <code>.htaccess</code> file, the
documentation for that directive will contain an Override section,
- specifying what value must be in <directive
- module="core">AllowOverride</directive> in order
- for that directive to be permitted.</p>
+ specifying what value must be in <directive
+ module="core">AllowOverride</directive> in order for that
+ directive to be permitted.</p>
<p>For example, if you look at the documentation for the <directive
module="core">AddDefaultCharset</directive>