Apache Directory directives

<Directory> directives

Syntax: <directory directory-path> ... </Directory>

<Directory>and the</Directory>used to encapsulate a set of instructions that take effect only on a directory and its subdirectories. Any can be in"Directory"the directives used in the scope can be used. Directory-pathcan be the full path to a directory, or contain aUnix Shella wildcard character string that matches the syntax. In a wildcard character string,"?"matches any single character,"*"matches any sequence of characters. You can also use"[]"to determine the range of characters. None of the above wildcard characters can match"/"characters. So<directory/*/public_html>will not match/home/user/public_html, but<Directory/home/*/public_html>to match correctly. Say, for example:

<Directory/usr/local/httpd/htdocs>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

When using the directory-path parameter, note that they must be consistent with the file system path that Apache uses to access the files. Commands given to a specific <Directory> will not be able to take effect on the same directory file that is pointed through different paths, such as the path generated by another symbolic connection.

Controls the order in which the default access state and allow and deny directives take effect

Order Deny,allow

All Access is forbidden

Deny from all

Allow IP 127.0.0.1

Allow from 127.0.0.1

In the Apache Server, if a folder does not have the specified access rights, the permissions on the parent directory will prevail, and if access is currently specified, the current one will prevail .

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Apache Directory directives