On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Justin Pasher
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> Andrew Hall wrote:
>>
>> Hi there.
>>
>> I'd like to allow directory indexes for certain clients but not for
>> others.
>>
>> Specifically to allow our internal network to view them but external
>> connections to be refused.
>>
>> Is there some way to wrap Options [+-]Indexes within Authentication by
>> IP address ?
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>>
>
> I don't think you're going to be able to do this, as the Options directive
> can only be changed within a "container" context (e.g. global config,
> <VirtualHost>, <Directory>, .htaccess). Since the Allow from/Deny from
> directives are not container objects, you can't wrap the Options directive
> inside of them. A solution I have used in the past to emulate this behavior
> is to create an index files written in a programming language like PHP or
> Perl and have that page generate the index listing instead of Apache. This
> allows you to put any security checks you like on the directory index
> generation.
>
> Justin Pasher
>
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It should be to use the <location> directive for this...
e.g.
<location /index.html>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</location>
hope this helps,
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