changing .htaccess need restart apache?

Posted by mampwamp2 on March 11, 2013 at 1:29am

i would like to show index.html as my homepage, then index.html will have script redirect to index.php.
it work in my website.

but there is something error because i can't login admin page

i fount the solution on this post http://drupal.org/node/41608#comment-76876
it need change .htaccess

Change

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

i have try to change it but it still same, is that need to restart apache?

Comments

Posted by ColdSun on March 11, 2013 at 6:01am

You shouldn't need to restart apache for .htaccess changes as they are not cached and are instead ran each page hit.