On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Joshua Slive wrote: > On 8/3/05, Chris Johnson <johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > <Location /~> > > > php_flag engine off > > > </Location> > > > > > For Apache PHP module, which we have. Not used to using Location > > much. I only want to prevent its use in usr's public_html remember. > > The above would turn it off everywhere. Are you then saying it should > > be reenabled for other URLs? Can you please give an example? > > No -- notice the "~" above, which restricts applications to URLs > beginning in "~". The advantage of using <Location> is that it is > evaluated after .htaccess files and overrides them, so it is a good > way to assure that .htaccess files are overridden. See > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html#how > > In your particular case, as long as you are turning on php only for > specific directories that are not parent directories of your user > directories, then you don't really need the <Location> section, since > php will be off by default and your AllowOverride prevents it from > being turned on in .htaccess files. The <Location> section is just an > extra guarantee. > > Joshua. > I HAVE to get new eyes. Thank you. Now, when I did this once before (it was a while ago) the FileInfo override was what stopped .htaccess from doing AddType, yes? That not being there is what does it. Right? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Johnson |Internet: johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Systems Administrator |Web: http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~johnson NMR Center |Voice: 617.726.0949 Mass. General Hospital |FAX: 617.726.7422 149 (2301) 13th Street |Doctors don't save lives. The best they can hope Charlestown, MA., 02129 USA |to do is save life. Not the same thing. Me ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx