Hello,
I'm working on a way of making specific content available only under
certain circumstances, and I believe the best way to go about this is
to use the "Define" directive, then do some stuff within "<IfDefine
...>" wrappers. The problem is, no matter what kind of conditional
stuff I put around the Define line, it is always parsed.
Example:
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /curl/>
Define myvar
</If>
With the above, the "myvar" parameter will always be defined for every
request, regardless of user-agent. This will also work:
<If "%{REMOTE_ADDR} == 'these.are.numbers'">
Define myvar
</If>
Very clearly that should never ever match, yet it does. Reading the
documentation seems to indicate that the Define directive should be
obeying the context it is being put in:
Documentation for "If" directive (https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod
/core.html#if):
> Only directives that support the directory context can be used within
> this configuration section.
Documentation for "Define" directive (https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4
/mod/core.html#define):
> Context: server config, virtual host, directory
Perhaps the only way I could get Define to only be applied
conditionally is by following the example of nesting it within <IfDefin
e...> wrappers. But if Define is otherwise always set globally and
unconditionally, then the <IfDefine...> directive seems superfluous.
Am I vastly misunderstanding the usage of this here?
Thanks for any assistance.
-Adam
