On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Zembower, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  However, in a separate section, I want to further restrict access to
>  just records in LDAP and exclude users who are originating from inside
>  our LAN but don't have records in the LDAP.

>  This too seems to be working correctly from inside our LAN. I can access
>  everything on the intranet site without authenticating, but if I want
>  anything in /staffonly/, I have to authenticate. When I do so, I can
>  access a document, such as /staffonly/test.html.
>
>  However, when I try to go directly to
>  http://centernet.jhuccp.org/staffonly/test.html from a host outside of
>  our LAN, I get a 403 Forbidden error and this entry in the logs:
>  [Wed Mar 26 13:19:46 2008] [error] [client 98.218.13.184] client denied
>  by server configuration: /var/www/centernet/htdocs/staffonly/test.html
>
>  When I try to access the pages outside of the /staffonly/ directory from
>  a host outside of our LAN, everything seems to work correctly after I
>  enter my credentials.

Because the Deny entries from the parent directory are inherited in
/staffonly/, when you change Satisfy to all, you completely deny
access to anyone on the Deny list. To fix that, just add
Allow from all
to the /staffonly/ directory section.

Joshua.

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