I guess I am just a little confused as to why there is a <Directory /> at all? If my DocumentRoot is set to /var/www then wouldn't that prevent anyone from accessing anything above /var/www in the directory structure anyway, thus making the <Directory /> kind of pointless?
On 09/29/2011 06:44 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote:
Your root directory / should always be Deny from all. Then you allow access to other directories per need. On Sep 30, 2011 7:25 AM, "Brandon Phelps" <bphe...@gls.com <mailto:bphe...@gls.com>> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am a bit confused regarding the difference between: > > <Directory /> > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > </Directory> > > and: > > <Directory /var/www/> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews > AllowOverride None > Order allow,deny > allow from all > </Directory> > > I am trying to lock down the server to only allow connections from my local subnet, so should I place these Order/Allow/Deny statements in the / directory block, or the /var/www? > > Thanks! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 <mailto:users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org> > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org <mailto:users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org <mailto:users-h...@httpd.apache.org> >
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