At 08:49 PM 3/19/2003, Joshua Slive wrote: >On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Paul Smith wrote: > >> >> > > In fact, it DOES restrict access to that folder, BUT it does NOT restrict >> > > access to 'mysite.co.uk/Admin/...' This would be fine on Unix file >> > > systems, >> > > but not on Windows ones, where /admin/ and /Admin/ are the same. >> > >> >This fact is well document at (for example): >> >http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/sections.html#file-and-web >> >> Thanks :-) >> >> I spent about 20 minutes looking on the apache website for something to do >> with this, but I couldn't find it - maybe the <location> part of the online >> docs should mention this (I'd assumed that Directory had the same problem) > >I don't disagree. That fact (<Location> shouldn't be used to >restrict filesystem directories) should probably be explicitly mentioned >explicitly in the docs for <Location>, rather than just by reference to >the sections.html doc.
++1 and then some! Always good to learn which sections have mislead users to the wrong config - and then fix those sections :-) Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
