RE: [users@httpd] Directory index forbidden by Options directive

[Boyle Owen <Ow...@swx.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clodoaldo Pinto Neto [mailto:clodoaldo.pinto@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:08 PM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Directory index forbidden by 
> Options directive
> 
> 2006/10/30, Boyle Owen <Ow...@swx.com>:
> > I don't know what you're doing wrong... I tried you're config as you
> > described it and it works fine. There must be an additional config
> > snippet somewhere that is screwing things up for you. Do 
> you have any
> > "Includes"?
> >
> > To debug further, strip it down to just this VH and check 
> that you get
> > the expected behaviour. Then put back all additional complications
> > (other VHs, rewrite rules, SSL, whatever...) one piece at a 
> time, until
> > it breaks again - maybe that will shed some light on it...
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I found the culprit. Fedora Core 5 (i think the
> previous versions also) has a welcome.conf in conf.d:
> 
> <LocationMatch "^/+$">
>     Options -Indexes
>     ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
> </LocationMatch>

Ah-haaaa....

> 
> Since I like the welcome page I came with this workaround:
> 
> <VirtualHost 10.1.1.103:80>
>    ServerName yumrepo.s0
>    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/yum"
>    <Location />
>       Options Indexes
>    </Location>
>    <Directory "/var/www/html/yum">
>       AllowOverride None
>       Options Indexes
>       Order Allow,Deny
>       Allow from all
>    </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> I think it is kind of ugly. If you can see something more 
> elegant just say it.

It's a bit redundant - anything that can go in a <Directory> can also go
in a <Location>, so you could simplify things, eg:

<VirtualHost 10.1.1.103:80>
   ServerName yumrepo.s0
   DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/yum"
   <Location />
      AllowOverride None
      Options Indexes
      Order Allow,Deny
      Allow from all>    
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Having said that, I'm not entirely sure why <Location /> overrides the
welcome.conf snippet while <Directory "/var/www/html/yum"> in the same
place doesn't... Maybe to do with the order apache parses Location and
Directory containers...

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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> 
> Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
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