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Uthman
Uthman

Reputation: 9817

Configuring Apache to allow disallow directory list

I need to allow directory listing only for a particular directory: /var/www/test. I followed the steps given here http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DirectoryListings but I am doing something wrong because of which I get Forbidden 403 message if I browse http://localhost/test. Following is what I have in my /etc/apache2/sites-available/test. Can you spot any error with this config?

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <FilesMatch index.html>
        deny from all
    </FilesMatch>
    <Directory /var/www/php/>
        AllowOverride None
        deny from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/test>
        Options +Indexes
        AllowOverride All
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 11130

Answers (1)

user149341
user149341

Reputation:

The Order you're specifying for /var/www/test is deny,allow, so the Deny from all on /var/www is taking precedence over the Allow from all for /var/www/test. Switch that to allow,deny and you'll get the behavior you're expecting.

I'd also strongly recommend that you remove the <FilesMatch index.html>. It'll just cause you problems down the road. index.html has nothing to do with automatic directory indexing; it's only involved when you've explicitly created such a file, so this directive will just keep normal index.html files from ever working.

Upvotes: 1

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