Re: strace on httpd and .htaccess directories looked at

[Julien Pauli <doctorrock83@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok but why are they parsed ?
Is that a wanted behavior or some kind of unmastered stuff ?

If I want to enable AllowOverride, the DocRoot and Aliases should then be next to a device root (aka /web) if I want to prevent too many kernel open().

Julien.P

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Julien Pauli <doctorrock83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I did know that activating .htaccess makes Apache look in all the
> subdirectories of the DocRoot (or Vhost) to look for .htaccess files and
> allow inheritence for them
>
> But passing strace on the httpd process shows currious things :
>
> Apache seems to look behind the DocRoot as well, here it is :
>

They get parsed for whatever on-disk path you allow it, and the
various values are merged as you go down. It doesn't skip directories
outside of your Docroot/Alias/etc.

Use "AllowOverrride None" in <Directory /> if you only want to turn on
htaccess for your DocumentRoot

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Eric Covener
covener@xxxxxxxxx

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