.htaccess file not being read (“Options -Indexes” in .htaccess file not working)

Question

I created an .htaccess file with only the following line:

Options -Indexes

However, the index is still shown for the directory.<

Answer 1

In case you have

AllowOverride None

Change that to:

AllowOverride All

in your httpd.conf or in your default virtualhost file in in /etc/apache2/sites-available/...conf