On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Joshua Slive wrote: > On 8/9/05, Chris Johnson <johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > New problem. We wouldf very much love to allow users to use > > Redirect in .htaccess but must disallow FileInfo to turn off things > > like PHP. FileInfo is needed to allow Redirect. > > > > Is there any way to either re-enable redirect specifically > > without allowing FineInfo? I'm thinking no and it's a little > > upsetting that Apache doesn't seem to have finer granularity here > > unless I'm missing something. Oh, using 1.3 here, but 2.0 appears to > > have the same problem. > > No, there is no direct way to do this. But there are plenty of other > ways to accomplish the same goal. For example: > > 1. Allow FileInfo but use a "php_admin_flag engine off" or similar > setting to assure that php can't be used. Turns off php true, but there's also perl. Is there anything like this for mod_perl at all? > > 2. Allow FileInfo but use other administrative measures to keep your > users in line. (A rule with posted consequences for violations plus a > simple cron job for enforcement should work fine.) > > Joshua. > Yeah. Problem there is that this is an after thie horse has escaped deal. True I can do nasty things but only after my server is trashed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 |"The two most abundant things in the Universe Charlestown, MA., 02129 USA | are hydrogen and stupidity." Harlan Ellison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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