Throughout my website I use html, but want to incorporate a .php cms called perch. When trying to run the compatability test, I got a Forbidden 403. When I deactivated the .htacess it worked. After some time testing I have narrowed it down to this
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
When I comment it out, it works, but being ignorant on how htaccess fully works, I don't know what this is deactivating. What can I do to have this still activated and get my site to allow access to .php files. My htaccess code in full (sans page specific redirects) is below.
RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteEngine on
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
# Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes <-----
AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
# Your document html
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 0 seconds"
# Media: images, video, audio
ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 2 weeks"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2 weeks"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2 weeks"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2 weeks"
ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 2 weeks"
ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 2 weeks"
ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 2 weeks"
# CSS and JavaScript
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 0 seconds"
</IfModule>
# compress text, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/js
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
# remove browser bugs
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
