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For this to work, permissions for CGI scripts, and the entire path to the scripts, must be set to 0755.
10.5.22.
Options
The directive controls which server features are available in a particular directory. For
Options
example, under the restrictive parameters specified for the root directory,
. No features are enabled, except that the server is allowed to follow symbolic links
FollowSymLinks
in the root directory.
By default, in the
.
FollowSymLinks Indexes
(for example,
DirectoryIndex
follow symbolic links in that directory.
Note
statements from the main server configuration section needs to be replicated to each
Options
containers individually. Refer to Section 10.5.65
VirtualHost
about
VirtualHost
10.5.23.
AllowOverride
The
AllowOverride
an file. By default, both the root directory and the
.htaccess
overrides.
.htaccess
10.5.24.
Order
The directive controls the order in which
Order
is configured to evaluate the
directory.
10.5.25.
Allow
specifies which client can access a given directory. The client can be
Allow
IP address, a partial IP address, a network/netmask pair, and so on. The
configured to
Allow
10.5.26.
Deny
works similar to
Deny
configured to requests from anyone by default.
Deny
10.5.27.
UserDir
is the subdirectory within each user's home directory where they should place personal
UserDir
HTML files which are served by the Web server. This directive is set to
directory,
DocumentRoot
permits the server to generate a directory listing for a directory if no
index.html
containers.
directive sets whether any
directives before the
Allow
requests from , meaning everyone has access.
all
, except it specifies who is denied access. The
Allow
Chapter 10. Apache HTTP Server
is set to include
Options
) is specified.
FollowSymLinks
VirtualHost
can be overridden by the declarations in
Options
DocumentRoot
and directives are evaluated. The server
allow deny
directives for the
Deny
is set to only
Options
Indexes
allows the server to
for more information
are set to allow no
DocumentRoot
, a domain name, an
all
directory is
DocumentRoot
DocumentRoot
by default.
disable
and
is not