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The current Magento 2 source code has a number of different .htaccess files
./.htaccess
./app/.htaccess
./dev/.htaccess
./downloader/.htaccess
./downloader/template/.htaccess
./lib/.htaccess
./pub/.htaccess
./pub/errors/.htaccess
./pub/lib/.htaccess
./pub/media/.htaccess
./pub/media/customer/.htaccess
./pub/media/downloadable/.htaccess
./pub/media/theme_customization/.htaccess
./pub/static/.htaccess
./var/.htaccess
If you do a lot of development with symlinks, you’ll want to watch out for the following
#File: ./pub/static/.htaccess
Options None
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_flag engine 0
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine Off
</IfModule>
That first line (Options None) will disable Apache’s ability to serve symlinks out of your static folder.
I totally didn’t spend an hour debugging my http.conf files because of this.