Lion Server: Wiki Disables Allow Override

Greetings All,
I setup my Lion Server (10.7.2) and set the web site to allow overrides, which works great. However, when I enable the Wiki service, it "disables" the htaccess directives and those directories for which I need indexing no longer appear. Instead, the wiki portal page appears. Any thoughts on what conf file I need to change to prevent the wiki service from ignoring the htaccess directives?

Found the answer myself. Removed the "/wiki/" parameter from the "DirectoryIndex" in the 0000_any_80_.conf file and the htaccess directives are working fine now.

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On the SL Server, browse to \Library\Collaboration and right click on the Collaboration folder and click "Get Info"
Scroll all the way to the bottom and expand "Sharing & Permissions"
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2011-12-18 10:50:18.315 wikiadmin[5033:307] Updating schema...
2011-12-18 10:50:18.324 wikiadmin[5033:307] Schema updates completed.
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2011-12-18 10:50:29.057 wikiadmin[5033:307] Migrating project '(Wiki Page 1 Title Here)' (1 of 6)
2011-12-18 10:50:39.137 wikiadmin[5033:307] Migrating project '(Wiki Page 2 Title Here) ' (2 of 6)
2011-12-18 10:50:49.282 wikiadmin[5033:307] Migrating project '(Wiki Page 3 Title Here) ' (3 of 6)
2011-12-18 10:50:59.350 wikiadmin[5033:307] Migrating project '(Wiki Page 4 Title Here) ' (4 of 6)
2011-12-18 10:51:09.475 wikiadmin[5033:307] Migrating project '(Wiki Page 5 Title Here) ' (5 of 6)
2011-12-18 10:51:19.635 wikiadmin[5033:307] Migrating project '(Wiki Page 6 Title Here) ' (6 of 6)
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2011-12-18 10:51:29.942 wikiadmin[5033:307] Destroying migration entity and scratch tables...
2011-12-18 10:51:30.295 wikiadmin[5033:307] Done
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2011-12-18 10:51:40.311 wikiadmin[5033:307] Rebuilding search index...
2011-12-18 10:51:50.724 wikiadmin[5033:307] Done
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If you get a lot of errors like i did my first time trying to do this, I found that i forgot to turn on and verify that my new Lion Server web server and wiki page were fully functional prior to starting the migration. So if you get several errors that look similar to this.......
2011-12-18 01:23:52.160 wikiadmin[2930:307] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'PGCConnectionError', reason: 'could not connect to server: No such file or directory
          Is the server running locally and accepting
          connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
*** First throw call stack:
          0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff915d6286 __exceptionPreprocess + 198
          1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff958d9d5e objc_exception_throw + 43
          2   PostgreSQLClient                    0x0000000110038349 -[PGCConnection init] + 0
          3   PostgreSQLClient                    0x0000000110038425 -[PGCConnection initWithInfo:] + 157
          4   PostgreSQLClient                    0x0000000110037f8a +[PGCConnection connectWithInfo:] + 47
          5   wikiadmin                           0x000000010ff0db1e wikiadmin + 31518
          6   wikiadmin                           0x000000010ff2248f wikiadmin + 115855
          7   wikiadmin                           0x000000010ff0824c wikiadmin + 8780
          8   wikiadmin                           0x000000010ff07ba4 wikiadmin + 7076
You need to check your web server and wiki settings again.
Once everything is complete, you will need to go into your Server app on Lion Server and turn off the web server and also the wiki server. After about a minute or so, restart the web server then the wiki server and give it about 30 seconds or so to completely come back online. Now browse to http://localhost on the Lion Server and you should once again see the "Welcome to OS X Lion Server" page. Click on wikis and you should see the list of wikis you imported as well as the test wiki you created earlier. This will confirm that the files have been truly copied to the proper location for wikis on the new Lion Server.
At this point, your old wiki pages are ready to be used on your new OS X Lion Server.
There is a drawback with this process. Since you are moving ONLY the wiki database over to the new machine, all of the original users and groups is not transferred. As you can see i have 6 wikis and 2 users. This process doe not import the users and their configurations over to the new server. That process is completed by "Exporting" the "Server Admin Settings" & "Service Settings" from the SL Server "Server Admin" and importing them in the reversed fashion on the new Lion Server using Server Admin on the new server. This, however, is for another tutorial yet to be written. Mostly because i have yet to do it.
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