[PLUG] Apache access control question

[Galen Seitz]

Evan Heidtmann <clydefrog at adnap.no-ip.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:50, Galen Seitz wrote:
> > I'm confused about access control under Apache (2.0).  What determines the
> > default access control?  For example, if I have an entry in httpd.conf
> > like the following, what sets the access control for /var/www/icons?
> > 
> > Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"
> > 
> > <Directory "/var/www/icons">
> >     Options Indexes MultiViews
> >     AllowOverride None
> > </Directory>
> 
> You have no auth or access control directives here, so /var/www/icons
> will inherit the directives from higher-level directories. If you don't
> have any such directives in your httpd.conf at all, then AFAIK the
> defaults are to allow access from anywhere.
> 

Thanks for your help.  I'm fairly certain now that I was getting fooled
by browser caching.  Now I'm using links for a browser, and restarting it
each time I restart httpd.  Access control changes now seem to make sense.

galen