Somehow, my system (Ubuntu WSL layer on Windows; so treat as exactly Ubuntu) went a bit crazy. For a directory (a git repo if it matters) /path/to/foo, running ls shows the git files ORIG_HEAD, index, and index.lock in there.
I tried to debug this by going cd .git, but an ls there showed me my same list of files as the parent!
I went as far as
/path/to/foo/.git/.git/.git
before stopping checking the recursion.
A possibly related issue that managed to show up is that the .htaccess file there is read as a file by Emacs on Windows, a file by vi on Linux, but a directory by emacs and a directory by bash.
That means that my computer really thinks
~/public_html/.git/.htaccess/.htaccess/.git/.htaccess/.git/.git
is identical to
~/public_html
So, needless to say, Apache also craps out and says that it’s an invalid htaccess file …. though on an other machine (see: git repo) it runs just fine.
Help?
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Answer
Tried nuking the directory via rm -rf and git clone-ing back, but the Apache problem persisted.
I removed the symlink to the directory via unlink:
~$ unlink public_html
then re-mounted it, making sure that there wasn’t a trailing space
~$ ln -s /mnt/c/Users/USER/pathto/repo /home/USER/public_html