Hello, I've set up a test site to which I restricted access by setting "Allow from" to a single IP address in the web root Directory entry. However, when I access the site from another IP by just providing the domain name (http://example.com) I get the noindex.html page instead of the expected 403 document. Providing an url with a file name ((http://example.com/anyfile)) shows the 403 document as I expected. Is it expected behaviour that apache shows the noindex file instead of a 403 document in this case? This is a CentOS 4 system (httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.7.centos4) so it could well be this is an issue that has been fixed in later releases. I tried using a RewriteRule ^/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/index.php [L,R] to work around this issue. This works fine as long as the site is empty, but since the application I'm testing rewrites index.php to / it creates and endless redirect. Is there any way I can configure apache to show the 403 document when the plain domain name is used as the url? If this is a known issue fixed in later releases it suffices for me to know that is the case. Thanks for your help. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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