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authorHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-07-19 23:04:15 +0000
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-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <head>
- <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" />
-
- <title>How Directory, Location and Files sections work</title>
- </head>
- <!-- Background white, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) -->
-
- <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF"
- vlink="#000080" alink="#FF0000">
- <div align="CENTER">
- <img src="images/sub.gif" alt="[APACHE DOCUMENTATION]" />
-
- <h3>Apache HTTP Server</h3>
- </div>
-
-
-
- <h1 align="CENTER">How Directory, Location and Files sections
- work</h1>
-
- <p>The sections <a
- href="mod/core.html#directory"><code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code></a>,
- <a
- href="mod/core.html#location"><code>&lt;Location&gt;</code></a>
- and <a
- href="mod/core.html#files"><code>&lt;Files&gt;</code></a> can
- contain directives which only apply to specified directories,
- URLs or files respectively. Also htaccess files can be used
- inside a directory to apply directives to that directory. This
- document explains how these different sections differ and how
- they relate to each other when Apache decides which directives
- apply for a particular directory or request URL.</p>
-
- <h2>Directives allowed in the sections</h2>
-
- <p>Everything that is syntactically allowed in
- <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code> is also allowed in
- <code>&lt;Location&gt;</code> (except a
- sub-<code>&lt;Files&gt;</code> section). Semantically, however
- some things, most notably <code>AllowOverride</code> and the
- two options <code>FollowSymLinks</code> and
- <code>SymLinksIfOwnerMatch</code>, make no sense in
- <code>&lt;Location&gt;</code>,
- <code>&lt;LocationMatch&gt;</code> or
- <code>&lt;DirectoryMatch&gt;</code>. The same for
- <code>&lt;Files&gt;</code> -- syntactically everything is fine,
- but semantically some things are different.</p>
-
- <h2>How the sections are merged</h2>
-
- <p>The order of merging is:</p>
-
- <ol>
- <li><code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code> (except regular
- expressions) and .htaccess done simultaneously (with
- .htaccess, if allowed, overriding
- <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code>)</li>
-
- <li><code>&lt;DirectoryMatch&gt;</code>, and
- <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code> with regular expressions</li>
-
- <li><code>&lt;Files&gt;</code> and
- <code>&lt;FilesMatch&gt;</code> done simultaneously</li>
-
- <li><code>&lt;Location&gt;</code> and
- <code>&lt;LocationMatch&gt;</code> done simultaneously</li>
- </ol>
-
- <p>Apart from <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code>, each group is
- processed in the order that they appear in the configuration
- files. <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code> (group 1 above) is
- processed in the order shortest directory component to longest.
- If multiple <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code> sections apply to
- the same directory they are processed in the configuration
- file order. The configuration files are read in the order
- httpd.conf, srm.conf and access.conf. Configurations included
- via the <code>Include</code> directive will be treated as if
- they were inside the including file at the location of the
- <code>Include</code> directive.</p>
-
- <p>Sections inside <code>&lt;VirtualHost&gt;</code> sections
- are applied <em>after</em> the corresponding sections outside
- the virtual host definition. This allows virtual hosts to
- override the main server configuration. (Note: this only works
- correctly from 1.2.2 and 1.3a2 onwards. Before those releases
- sections inside virtual hosts were applied <em>before</em> the
- main server).</p>
-
- <p>Later sections override earlier ones.</p>
-
- <h2>Notes about using sections</h2>
-
- <p>The general guidelines are:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>If you are attempting to match objects at the filesystem
- level then you must use <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code> and/or
- <code>&lt;Files&gt;</code>.</li>
-
- <li>If you are attempting to match objects at the URL level
- then you must use <code>&lt;Location&gt;</code></li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>But a notable exception is:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>proxy control is done via <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code>.
- This is a legacy mistake because the proxy existed prior to
- <code>&lt;Location&gt;</code>. A future version of the config
- language should probably switch this to
- <code>&lt;Location&gt;</code>.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Note about .htaccess parsing:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Modifying .htaccess parsing during Location doesn't do
- anything because .htaccess parsing has already occurred.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p><code>&lt;Location&gt;</code> and symbolic links:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>It is not possible to use "<code>Options
- FollowSymLinks</code>" or "<code>Options
- SymLinksIfOwnerMatch</code>" inside a
- <code>&lt;Location&gt;</code>,
- <code>&lt;LocationMatch&gt;</code> or
- <code>&lt;DirectoryMatch&gt;</code> section (the options are
- simply ignored). Using the options in question is only
- possible inside a <code>&lt;Directory&gt;</code> section (or
- a <code>.htaccess</code> file).</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p><code>&lt;Files&gt;</code> and <code>Options</code>:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Apache won't check for it, but using an
- <code>Options</code> directive inside a
- <code>&lt;Files&gt;</code> section has no effect.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Another note:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>There is actually a
- <code>&lt;Location&gt;</code>/<code>&lt;LocationMatch&gt;</code>
- sequence performed just before the name translation phase
- (where <code>Aliases</code> and <code>DocumentRoots</code>
- are used to map URLs to filenames). The results of this
- sequence are completely thrown away after the translation has
- completed.</li>
- </ul>
- <hr />
-
- <h3 align="CENTER">Apache HTTP Server</h3>
- <a href="./"><img src="images/index.gif" alt="Index" /></a>
-
- </body>
-</html>
-
-
-