On Sep 30, 2009, at 15:47 , Clive Kinton wrote:
Has anybody run into some weirdness with Apache 2.2.12 from Xampp on Vista and ip to hostname resolution for 'localhost'? The httpd.conf is vanilla, as shipped. Specific issue: Trying to limit access to a directory with a simple .htaccess file like: Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost Allow from 127.0.0.1 or even Order allow,deny Allow from localhost Allow from 127.0.0.1From the localhost calling the protected directory thus:http://127.0.0.1/protected Works - but - http://localhost/protected does not and 403's
What does the error log say when this happens?"Allow from" doesn't apply to the hostname requested, but the client doing the requesting. So the hostname that appears in the URL shouldn't have anything at all to do with whether those "allow from" directives are honored.
A similar Linux box running apache on the same network does not do this,leading me to think there is some kind of weirdness going on with how Vista resolves IP to hostname.I've done the obvious things I can think of (hosts/lmhosts) but there isa gap in my understanding of where Vista will look to resolve 'localhost'. An entry in hosts does not seem sufficient.Any pointers gratefully received. I know this is OT, but perhaps someonehas come across this?
Nah, it's not off-topic. It's apache httpd configuration. xampp is just one possible distribution of our code.
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