Apache Help!

IwantLINUX · 02-06-2010, 05:14 PM

Hi All,

I am testing Apache and getting confused a bit. I have created a softlink under /var/www/html/pam pointing to PAM DOCS.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 7 05:58 pam -> /usr/share/doc/pam-0.77/html/

Now what i am trying to do is stop access to /usr/share/doc/pam-0.77/html/ when someone put domain.com/pam in browser. I added the following to httpd.conf :

<Directory "/usr/share/doc/pam-0.77/html">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Directory>

However, its not making any difference. We are still able to browse the original directory.

How can i stop a softlink to access a directory?

Regards,

JimBrewster · 02-06-2010, 06:01 PM

I'm guessing that Apache treats the symlink independently from the original path, so replace:

Code:

<Directory "/usr/share/doc/pam-0.77/html">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Directory>

with:

Code:

<Directory "/var/www/html/pam">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Directory>

Either that or you need to restart the http daemon.
HTH

spiderbatdad · 02-06-2010, 06:02 PM

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod...ess.html#allow
See also Deny and environment variables

Example:

SetEnvIf User-Agent ^KnockKnock/2\.0 let_me_in
<Directory /docroot>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from env=let_me_in
</Directory>

spiderbatdad · 02-06-2010, 06:04 PM

mmm. double posted.

IwantLINUX · 02-07-2010, 01:05 AM

Thank you all for the help!!!