Location walk after directory walk?

2013-06-10 Thread Eric Covener
Is there some historical or other reason that the location has higher precedence that directory/files? I think the other way is much more intuitive /* Rerun the location walk, which overrides any map_to_storage config. */ if ((access_status = ap_location_walk(r))) { return

Re: Location walk after directory walk?

2013-06-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.06.2013 15:37, schrieb Eric Covener: Is there some historical or other reason that the location has higher precedence that directory/files? I think the other way is much more intuitive no - not from the daily use perspective Directory / Options -Indexes

Re: Location walk after directory walk?

2013-06-10 Thread Eric Covener
Directory / Options -Indexes -ExecCGI -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all denied /Directory does not mean i do not need the possibility to allow a specific Locations/Aliases outside this and the same for

Re: Location walk after directory walk?

2013-06-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.06.2013 15:58, schrieb Eric Covener: Directory / Options -Indexes -ExecCGI -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all denied /Directory does not mean i do not need the possibility to allow a specific

Re: Location walk after directory walk?

2013-06-10 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 10.06.2013 15:58, schrieb Eric Covener: Directory / Options -Indexes -ExecCGI -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all denied

Re: Location walk after directory walk?

2013-06-10 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Historically on unix it was syntactic... would you rather control access in filepath space or uri space? It seemed pretty simple to grant location /images read access, versus the /path/to/vhost/htdocs/images so that was an early preference still used by some admins. With case-insensitive

Re: Location walk after directory walk?

2013-06-10 Thread Rainer Jung
On 10.06.2013 15:37, Eric Covener wrote: Is there some historical or other reason that the location has higher precedence that directory/files? I think the other way is much more intuitive Don't know about th real motivation, but after having learned that from the explicit description in the

Re: Location walk after directory walk?

2013-06-10 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Monday 10 June 2013, Eric Covener wrote: Is there some historical or other reason that the location has higher precedence that directory/files? I don't know either, but I could imagine that it was just easier or more efficient to implement in this order, considering things like config walk