Why doesn't KeepAlive work in my .htaccess file?

Question

I was trying to add KeepAlive directive to my .htaccess file, like this:

KeepAlive on
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

All it did was disable the website.

I'm assuming, I had to insert that code within some tags, but what are those tags? What should be the complete code snippet?

Answer 1

KeepAlive is just available in 'server config'. It means you can set it just in the global server configurations, it is usually in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or /etc/apache2/...

Look to the documentation, there is ever explanation what are available locations for each configuration parameter.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html