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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Aram Mirzadeh <aw...@qosina.com> on 1996/04/02 18:19:43 UTC

WWW Form Bug Report: "Incorrect documentation in access.conf" on Linux (fwd)

No ack sent.  I don't think we need to.  

> Submitter: firstena@acccss.langley.af.mil
> Operating system: Linux, version: 
> Extra Modules used: 
> URL exhibiting problem: http://www.apache.org/docs/security_tips.html
> 
> Symptoms:
> --
> Instructions read "This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.", but this doesn't provide sufficient security for any of the Alias or ScriptAlias or user home directories.
> 
> Instructions on this are unclear, and the example at http://www.apache.org/docs/security_tips.html gives an illegal example.

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