On Sep 30, 2009, at 15:47 , Clive Kinton wrote:
Has anybody run into some weirdness with Apache 2.2.12 from Xampp on
Vista and ip to hostname resolution for 'localhost'? The httpd.conf is
vanilla, as shipped.
Specific issue: Trying to limit access to a directory with a
simple .htaccess file like:
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost
Allow from 127.0.0.1
or even
Order allow,deny
Allow from localhost
Allow from 127.0.0.1
From the localhost calling the protected directory thus:
http://127.0.0.1/protected
Works - but -
http://localhost/protected
does not and 403's
What does the error log say when this happens?
"Allow from" doesn't apply to the hostname requested, but the client
doing the requesting. So the hostname that appears in the URL
shouldn't have anything at all to do with whether those "allow from"
directives are honored.
A similar Linux box running apache on the same network does not do
this,
leading me to think there is some kind of weirdness going on with how
Vista resolves IP to hostname.
I've done the obvious things I can think of (hosts/lmhosts) but
there is
a gap in my understanding of where Vista will look to resolve
'localhost'. An entry in hosts does not seem sufficient.
Any pointers gratefully received. I know this is OT, but perhaps
someone
has come across this?
Nah, it's not off-topic. It's apache httpd configuration. xampp is
just one possible distribution of our code.
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