Freek Dijkstra wrote: > Steps to reproduce > 1. Add the following configuration to httpd.conf: > > Alias /test/ /var/www/test/ > > <Directory "/var/www/test/projects"> > Options Indexes > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > </Directory> > > <Directory ~ "/var/www/test/projects/$"> > Allow from all > </Directory> > > > Expected results: > - requesting http://localhost/test/projects would give an autoindex > - requesting http://localhost/test/projects/subdir would give a 403 > Forbidden > > Actual results: > - requesting http://localhost/test/projects gives a 403 Forbidden > - requesting http://localhost/test/projects/subdir gives a 403 Forbidden For what it's worth, I'll follow the progress and will strive to get it fixed, but can not easily upgrade this particular server. Fortunately, there is a workaround for those who want to achieve behaviour as I originally intended: Alias /projects/ /var/www/test/projects/ <Directory "/var/www/test/projects/"> Options Indexes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory ~ "/var/www/test/projects/.+/"> Order deny,allow Deny from all </Directory> <Directory ~ "/var/www/test/projects/subdir1/"> Allow from all </Directory> - Requesting www.example.org/projects/ is allowed. - Requesting www.example.org/projects/subdir1/ is allowed. - Requesting www.example.org/projects/subdir2/ is not allowed. This was exactly what I wanted. For those implementing this workaround, be very careful about: * Add the ~ in the last directive. It may seem superfluous, but is in fact essential. Without it, the parsing order would change, as explained in http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html#mergin. * Add the / in the folder of the last directive. Without it, the parsing order would change, so that the other regexp would prevail. Regards, Freek --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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