Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle <at> swx.com> writes: > > The problem you describe has no obvious solution, so there must be > additional config directives interfering with your setup. See notes > below: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: news [mailto:news <at> ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Marc > > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 4:46 PM > > To: users <at> httpd.apache.org > > Subject: [users <at> httpd] Apache ACL > > > > Hello people, > > > > following issue: > > > > Here is the directory layout > > |-- dir1 > > | |-- dir2 > > | | `-- dir3 > > > > In dir1 is a .htaccess: > > > > <FilesMatch "\.php$"> > > Order Deny,Allow > > Deny from all > > </FilesMatch> > > > > Directory dir3 contains an .htacess with "Options +Indexes" > > and .gif-files only. > > > > If I remove the .htaccess in dir1 the directory listing is displayed. > > In which dir - dir3? Yes. > > > > > If I keep it, the .htaccess in dir3 seems to be ignored as > > Error 403 (Forbidden) > > is returned. > > From what URL? Well, from http://server_name_of_virtual_host/dir1/dir2/dir3/ > What is in the error log for this request? I guess now I see the problem: [error] [client 88.xx.xx.xx.xx] client denied by server configuration: /path/to/dir3/index.php However, there is no index.php in that directory. Alone it being mentioned in the DirectoryIndex seems to be enough for the access to be denied :-\ Strange behavior. regards, Marc --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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