> Well acl's won't work well here, because .svn folders are > created in every folder of your application by the subversion > client.
I don't know enough about Subversion to comment, but if that's the case you're probably better off with a general rule somewhere rather than using ACLs, yes. > You can expect me to go through hundreds of folders and set > the acl on every .svn subfolder. No, that would probably be an impractical approach. However, you could easily do exactly that with a batch file and cacls.exe. The problem with that approach would be that you may add new .svn folders in the future, and you'd have to rerun the batch file. > The reason I suspect it's easier with Apache is because apache > has a lot of different options for the config file, and I bet > one of those directives will do just what I want... disallow > access to .svn folders. To the best of my knowledge, there's no Apache directive that specifically allows you to block access to directories whose names match part of a URL pattern. However, you could rewrite URLs to get the result you desire, with Apache or IIS. Again, I don't know much about Subversion, but I think that it has a lot of Apache-specific functionality that you can enable, so you might want to use Apache just to get at that functionality anyway. > IIS just has the GUI, which isn't very rich, and I don't remember > any options anywhere for disallowing access to specifically named > folders. I'm not sure what you mean by "very rich" - it provides all the functionality to manage IIS, and IIS has quite a few switches. However, you can manage IIS without the GUI, using either the Metabase Editor (IIS 5) or any text editor (IIS 6). All of the IIS configuration information is stored in the Metabase, which is just a big, ugly XML document with IIS 6. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216444 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
