Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
>Guillaume, excellent suggestion you had on permissions. I will put them in
>the new Apache version.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jean-Michel
>
>>I'd say instead :
>><directory /home/plf/www/rpm>
>> Options +Indexes
>></directory>
>>-> indexes are allowed in /home/plf/www/rpm only
>>
>>"Allow from" directive is about access right, and should be preceded by
>>"Order" directive
>>
>>Question for Christian:
>>- why isn't a deny from all directive for / directory ?
>>- why isn't all options explicitely disabled in / directory ?
>>I'd used instead:
>><Directory />
>> Options -All -Multiviews
>> AllowOverride None
>> Order deny,allow
>> Deny from all
>></Directory>
>>--
>>Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
>>
>
I think denying access by default is confusing. If you did not want web
access you would not install and run apache.
But if it was possible to allow access to the main page saying 'It
worked' and apache manual levaing the rest denied I'd prefer to set up
default permissions this way.