Only bad hostings have problems with these lines. You should contact your hosting to ask them why this does not work in their environment.
The .htaccess is always added. Don't remove the .htaccess, just comment with # these lines if your hosting does not accept them. I'm not sure about the security consequences of commenting these lines.
Hans
2010/10/7 Prekates Alexandros aprekates@gmail.com
in installing drupal6 in a hosted site-sunos-apache, in some dirs like defaults/file a .htaccess was created ,with 'SetHandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006' and 'Options None' 'Options +FollowSymLinks'
which resulted in not being able to see images there (like an uploaded logo). can i remove it? Does drupal probed the hosted served and assumed it was no safe so it added that file?
alexander
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