[users@httpd] .htaccess 'allow from' and directories

[Nigel Gilbert <n....@soc.surrey.ac.uk>]

I have an .htaccess file at the top level which allows users in from 
specified IP addresses.  The allow commands are within a <Files> 
directive in the .htaccess file.  There is also a <Files> directive 
which allows all users access to index.html.   e.g.:

<Files *>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from 206.40
....
</Files>
<Files index.html>
Allow from all
</Files>

The result is that, as expected, all users are allowed to access the 
location http://my.domain.com/index.html if they specify this address 
explicitly.  However, if they try to access the location 
http://my.domain.com/  (no explicit index.html) and are not on the 
allowed IP list, their access is denied.  I would like the behaviour to 
be exactly the same as if they had specified index.html in their URL.

How can I achieve this?  I do not have permissions to change the 
httpd.conf file, so any solution needs to be workable using only the 
.htaccess context (this excludes using <Directory > directive, as far 
as I can see from the documentation).

Thanks for your help!

Nigel Gilbert

_______________________________________________________________________
Professor Nigel Gilbert,  Editor, Journal of Artificial Societies and
      Social Simulation, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>
         Centre for Research on Social Simulation (CRESS)
    Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
        Tel:+44 1483 689173   N.Gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk
                        <http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>


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