htaccess file is not compatible with all versions of Apache like 2.4 and

Hi,

in my web server, which is installed with Apache 2.4.6,
I have this following error:

[Tue Nov 18 xx:xx:xx.962550 2014] [core:alert] [pid 4043] [client xxx:45614] /home/xxx/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/.htaccess: Invalid command ‘Order’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration, referer: https://www.xxx.com/wp-admin/

With Apache 2.2.* I didn’t have this issue, it’s because Apache 2.4.* doesn’t like teses lines:
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all

and “Allow from all”

You can see the doc: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/upgrading.html

So in order to take in account both versions of Apache, you should be modify the htaccess like this:

# Apache 2.4
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all denied

<FilesMatch “^(form|akismet)\.(css|js)$”>
Require all granted
</FilesMatch>

#allow access to any image
<FilesMatch “^(.+)\.(png|gif)$”>
Require all granted
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# Apache 2.2
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all

<FilesMatch “^(form|akismet)\.(css|js)$”>
Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

#allow access to any image
<FilesMatch “^(.+)\.(png|gif)$”>
Allow from all
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

Thanks.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/