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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca> on 2003/11/17 20:06:23 UTC

Re: [users@httpd] a trivial question

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 Shen.Yang@ny.frb.org wrote:
> <Directory />
>          Options FollowSymlinks
>          AllowOverwrite None
> </Directory>
>
> Is the forward slash in the above directive a reference to the Unix root
> filesystem or to the document root directory?

<Directory> matches against the filesystem.  <Location> matches against
web paths.  See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/sections.html

Joshua.

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