It was thus said that the Great Stuart Gall once stated: > > Hello, > As I understand it <Location something> > and <Directory something> > are equivalent except Location refers from the Document root Not quite. <Location> refers to the URL, *not* the directory. For example: http://bible.conman.org/ Actually, go there. You'll notice that there's *only* a "robots.txt" file and nothing else. Yet, go to: http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.6:9-9:17 And you'll get the Biblical story of the flood. What's going on here? Here's the relevent configuration from my server: <VirtualHost 66.165.166.133> ServerName bible.conman.org ServerAdmin sean@xxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot /http/spc/sites/bible.conman.org/htdocs CustomLog /http/spc/logs/bible.conman.org combined <Directory /http/spc/sites/bible.conman.org/htdocs> Options All AllowOverride All </Directory> <Location /kj/> LitbookDir /http/spc/sites/bible.conman.org/bible LitbookTranslation /http/spc/sites/bible.conman.org/thebooks LitbookIndex http://literature.conman.org/bible/ LitbookTLD /kj/ LitbookTitle "The Electric King James" SetHandler litbook-handler </Location> </VirtualHost> The directory is "/http/spc/sites/bible.conman.org/htdocs" under which, there's not much there. *But* the location "/kj" is controlled by a custom written module that handles the requests. > So I have apache 2.0.50 installed on Mandrake > In one of my virtual hosts I have > > <Location /> > Allow from all > </Location> > > <Location /ppm/storyboard> > Options +Indexes > Allow from all ** > </Location> > > When I go to this location with a web browser I see the directory index > but with no files UNLESS > I also include > > <Directory /document root> > Allow from all > </Directory> > > I do not see any files listed. > > Why do I need the double Allow from all ?? My guess is that you could remove the "Allow" from the <Location> directive, but keep it for the <Directory> and it will still work. <Location> refers to URL space, *not* the directory space. -spc (Who wrote the above module for a "proof-of-concept" for an idea I had) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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