[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 464/727] Updated the AccessFileName directive description.
Jaromir Hradilek
jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 13:03:52 UTC 2010
commit 2b80ebc049b348558e6be5bd947022a020181ea6
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date: Tue Aug 24 12:04:26 2010 +0200
Updated the AccessFileName directive description.
en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
index 1239061..cd0fbc6 100644
--- a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
@@ -228,30 +228,6 @@ httpd (pid 19014) is running...</screen>
<para>
For more information about <filename>mod_ssl</filename> directives, refer to the documentation online at <ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_ssl.html" />.
</para>
- <indexterm>
- <primary><filename>httpd.conf</filename></primary>
- <see>configuration directives, Apache</see>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>configuration directives, Apache</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <formalpara id="s2-apache-accessfilename">
- <title>AccessFileName</title>
- <indexterm>
- <primary><command>AccessFileName</command></primary>
- <secondary>Apache configuration directive</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>configuration directives, Apache</primary>
- <secondary><command>AccessFileName</command></secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <para>
- <command>AccessFileName</command> names the file which the server should use for access control information in each directory. The default is <filename>.htaccess</filename>.
- </para>
- </formalpara>
- <para>
- Immediately after the <command>AccessFileName</command> directive, a set of <command>Files</command> tags apply access control to any file beginning with a <filename>.ht</filename>. These directives deny Web access to any <filename>.htaccess</filename> files (or other files which begin with <filename>.ht</filename>) for security reasons.
- </para>
<formalpara id="s2-apache-action">
<title>Action</title>
<indexterm>
@@ -266,6 +242,33 @@ httpd (pid 19014) is running...</screen>
<command>Action</command> specifies a MIME content type and CGI script pair, so that when a file of that media type is requested, a particular CGI script is executed.
</para>
</formalpara>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>AccessFileName</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <option>AccessFileName</option> directive allows you to specify the file to be used to customize access control information for each directory. It takes the following form:
+ </para>
+ <screen>AccessFileName <replaceable>filename</replaceable></screen>
+ <para>
+ The default option is <filename>.htaccess</filename>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For security reasons, the directive is followed by the <literal>Files</literal> tag that prevents all files beginning with <filename>.ht</filename> from being accessed by web clients. This usually includes the <filename>.htaccess</filename> and <filename>.htpasswd</filename> files.
+ </para>
+ <example id="example-apache-httpdconf-accessfilename">
+ <title>Using the <option>AccessFileName</option> directive</title>
+ <screen>AccessFileName .htaccess
+
+<Files ~ "^\.ht">
+ Order allow,deny
+ Deny from all
+ Satisfy All
+</Files></screen>
+ </example>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
<formalpara id="s2-apache-adddescription">
<title>AddDescription</title>
<indexterm>
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