> Redirect permanent /usr/share/blah https://www.mydomain.com/blah > > Specifying the full path did not work. This seems a bit inconsistent, since > redirects under the DocumentRoot specify the full path, including the path to > the DocumentRoot.
AFAIK, it's always got to be a URL-path and not a filesystem path. > > This is acceptable but I'd prefer to just block access from http rather than > redirect. Neither of the following two approaches, placed under the default > <VirtualHost *>, worked: > > <Directory /blah> > AllowOverride None > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > </Directory> This would be for a literal directory of "/blah" in your filesystem. > > <Directory /usr/share/blah> > AllowOverride None > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > </Directory> > Ought to work if you're really serving a static file mapped to that diretory. > Out of curiosity, what are the advantages/disadvantages of using an alias to > redirect and simply creating a file link to the appropriate directory under > DocumentRoot? If I simply created a link /var/www/blah pointing to > /usr/share/blah, then I could use a <Directory> container to block access, as > is done with the /var/www/ssl directory above. I suspect that there are > security implications but it isn't clear to me what they are. Using Alias and a corresponding <Directory> container (2nd arg of Alias matches Directory container) is pretty normal. Something else is confusing your tests. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
