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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by sjm <sj...@porter.acadaff.appstate.edu> on 2003/05/13 15:16:46 UTC

[users@httpd] Nesting the Files section in httpd.conf

I am looking for an example of the correct way to nest a Files section inside a 
Directory section in the httpd.conf file.  I have searched through the apache 
site and google and can't find one.  Here are the (I think) relative sections of 
my httpd.conf (just in case I am using the Files section properly and have 
something else messed up):

<Directory "/var/www/html">
     Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
     AllowOverride AuthConfig
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
</Directory>

...

<Directory /var/www/html/sitename/maint/users/>
     AllowOverride AuthConfig

     <Files var/www/html/sitename/maint/users/protected.file>
         AuthType Basic
         AuthName "Protected File"
         Require user user_name
     </Files>
</Directory>

...

<VirtualHost *>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@hostname.edu
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sitename
     ServerName sitename
     ErrorLog /path/to/error_log
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@hostname.edu
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sitename
     ServerName www.hostname.edu
     ErrorLog /path/to/error_log
     Options Indexes ExecCGI
</VirtualHost>

but it doesn't work.  It works if I protect the whole directory by removing the 
File section tags.

Thanks for your time,

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Re: [users@httpd] Nesting the Files section in httpd.conf

Posted by William Wilson <wi...@appliedgenerics.com>.

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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 14:57, Zac Stevens dipped quill in ink and quoth:
>
> ermm...I think you need to take a look at the doco you pointed the OP at:
>
>     "Note that <Files> can be nested inside <Directory> sections to
>      restrict the portion of the filesystem they apply to."
>
>
> Zac

Oops. 

Please don't mail me direct, I get the list. With reference to the docs I 
pointed at; they also say : 

<Files> directive
Syntax: <Files filename> ... </Files>
Context: server config, virtual host, .htaccess


which I inferred to mean you don't use <Files ...>  inside a <Directory ...>, 
but then goes on to contradict it, as you quoted above. Perhaps you should be 
pointing this out to httpd.apache.org, who can amend the documentation, 
rather than me, who can't. I can confirm that my suggested solution works so 
I stand by the original mail (if perhaps not the phrasing, which on second 
reading sounds aloof).


Will

 

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