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Agbogidi Michael
Agbogidi Michael

Reputation: 137

Trying to Understand a .htaccess File

I am currently servicing a website and I was given FTP access to the domain. I found a .htaccess file in there with the following:

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName thecathedrallagos.org

### BEGIN Z-PUSH REWRITE ###
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync$ /MobileEmailPush/index.php
### END Z-PUSH REWRITE #####

Please what does this mean? What is being rewritten? Any help in explaining would be appreciated as I know little or none about the rewrite rules.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 161

Answers (1)

user2493235
user2493235

Reputation:

The only thing being rewritten is that /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync will be rewritten to actually serve /MobileEmailPush/index.php.

For the rest please refer to the Apache Documentation where a search for IndexIgnore, Limit, order, allow, deny or AuthName will explain what the rest is doing.

Since the file is using the old order/allow/deny format you may in fact want the documentation for Apache 2.2 or to review the documentation on upgrading from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4 paying particular attention to the section on access.

Upvotes: 1

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