Re: [users@httpd] PCRE Syntax or bug? (was "Require group" help required)

2011-02-22 Thread Eric Covener
> This matches a URL with /admin anywhere inside of it, followed by 0 or more slashes. So it matches and overrides your block. No regex or wildcard is required for what you probably intended (Location /admin/), but if you use a regex and intend it to match things that "start with" the arg, you

Re: [users@httpd] PCRE Syntax or bug? (was "Require group" help required)

2011-02-22 Thread Lee
On 22/02/2011 08:06, Nick Kew wrote: On 22 Feb 2011, at 06:55, Lee wrote: Have I misunderstood the PCRE engine, or is this a bug...? Thou shalt not mix and! (the gory details are explained somewhere in the docs; I'm not about to look it up). No, don't look it up, I'll have a poke around. I

Re: [users@httpd] PCRE Syntax or bug? (was "Require group" help required)

2011-02-21 Thread Nick Kew
On 22 Feb 2011, at 06:55, Lee wrote: > Have I misunderstood the PCRE engine, or is this a bug...? Thou shalt not mix and ! (the gory details are explained somewhere in the docs; I'm not about to look it up). Oh, and you clearly don't want PCRE or any *Match directive. -- Nick Kew Available

Re: [users@httpd] PCRE Syntax or bug? (was "Require group" help required)

2011-02-21 Thread Lee
On 21 Feb 2011, at 09:12, Lee Goddard wrote: Dear Apache Users, I have been looking at a problem for so many hours now that I think it has made me blind. The below configuration is intended to restrict access to /admin-cgi/ to members of the group "admin", which is defined in a plain text