Currently, AuthMerging is unset by default and treated as off. This flag is itself not merged.
The default behavior matches the pre-2.4 behavior -- once you start typing any kind of host or authz directives in a section, you have a clean slate. I was thinking it would be useful if AuthMerging itself was merged traditionally, such that e.g. this config: <Files *.bak> AuthMerging AND Require all denied Require ip 127.0.0.1 </Files> ... 1000 lines of other unrelated directives # contrived bad and unnecessary regex <FilesMatch html> Require all granted </Files> Would merge AuthMerging AND into the second section -- basically making the first section "sticky" from below instead of pulling it in from above. Thoughts? -- Eric Covener [email protected]
