Re: mod_auth-any/1778: Apache ignores .htaccess files in cgi-bin directories when using AllowOverride speed-up trick (fwd)

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

The following reply was made to PR mod_auth-any/1778; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: Apache bugs database <ap...@apache.org>
Cc:  Subject: Re: mod_auth-any/1778: Apache ignores .htaccess files in cgi-bin directories when using AllowOverride speed-up trick (fwd)
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:38:22 -0700 (MST)

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:31:50 -0500 (EST)
 From: Allen Chen <ac...@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
 To: coar@hyperreal.org, dgaudet@hyperreal.org
 Cc: apache-bugdb@apache.org
 Subject: Re: mod_auth-any/1778: Apache ignores .htaccess files in cgi-bin directories when using AllowOverride speed-up trick
 
 Hi guys,
 
 I think I found the problem.  I'm not sure if it's considered a bug or an
 error on my part, but what I had done was this: 
 
   <Directory />
   AllowOverride None
   </Directory>
 
   <Directory /opt/local/etc/httpd/htdocs>
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   </Directory>
 
   <Directory /opt/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin>
   AllowOverride All
   </Directory>
 
   ...
 
   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/
                          ^^^
 
 Notice that /cgi-bin/'s ScriptAlias points to /USR/local... instead of
 /OPT/local...  This worked because /usr/local is a link to /opt/local.
 However, probably because of the way Apache determines the directory tree, 
 the <Directory /opt/local/.../cgi-bin> did not get evaluated for
 /usr/local/.../cgi-bin.  
 
 To make a convoluted story short, changing the ScriptAlias to
 
   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /opt/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/
                          ^^^
 fixed the problem. :)
 
 -Allen
 
   Allen Chen   /   Systems Programmer   /   Raytheon STX Corporation ////
  SSDOO Software, Systems / International Solar-Terrestrial Physics /////
 e-mail: achen@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov   /  voice: (301) 286-7376     //////
 
 
 
 > Synopsis: Apache ignores .htaccess files in cgi-bin directories when using AllowOverride speed-up trick
 > 
 > Comment-Added-By: coar
 > Comment-Added-When: Sat Feb  7 06:47:49 PST 1998
 > Comment-Added:
 > Are you sure that your ScriptAlias and Directory directives
 > are referring to the same directory?  I.e., do you have a
 > 
 > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/
 > 
 > to match your "<Directory /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin>"?