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From: Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>
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Subject: Re: directory restrictiosn in access.conf-dist
In-Reply-To: <9708100505.aa05844@paris.ics.uci.edu> from "Roy T. Fielding" at
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According to Roy T. Fielding:

> <Directory /extra/fielding0/private/ws/apache/htdocs>
[...]
> <Directory /extra/fielding0/private/ws/apache/icons>
[...]
> <Directory /extra/fielding0/private/ws/apache/cgi-bin>

Why not using

<Location /> ...
<Location /icons> ...
<Location /cgi-bin> ...

?

The <Location /> section is also used for userdirs, eg. /~joe/.

ciao...
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Lars Eilebrecht
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