Re: "Deny" directives silently ignored in config files

[Noel Butler <noel.butler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 11:50 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Noel Butler <noel.butler@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:07 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> >
> >     I tried the following:
> >     
> >     <Location /tmp/>
> >     Order deny,allow
> >     Deny from all
> >     #RewriteEngine On
> >     #RewriteRule . - [F]
> >     </Location>
> >
> > It should work, but unless there's a special need, you should be using
> > directory not location,
>
> Right. I used Location because it was simpler, but after RTFM, I
> understand why Directory is used more often.

Right, so have you changed it to Directory and does it now work?

If not, I suggest this is a debian issue and should be taken up with its package maintainer, as with an apache.org release, even of such an old version that you are using, these directives did work correctly.

Cheers

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