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Izaya
Izaya

Reputation: 1568

Know what directives are allowed on apache server

I'm trying to create a collabtive server. For this, collabtive specify : Apache Web Server >= 2.0 compiled with mod_rewrite module and with the following directives allowed: DirectoryIndex, Deny, Allow, Options, Order, AddHandler, RewriteEngine, RewriteBase, RewriteCond and RewriteRule.

How can I know if these directives are allowed ? Do I need to change apache config to make it works ?

Thank you for you help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 179

Answers (1)

Jim K
Jim K

Reputation: 56

Apache functionality is organised into a series of modules. Each module may be enabled (or disabled) in your Apache configuration files, to permit you to restrict and/or extend the capabilities you wish your server to have. Some modules are enabled by default in a new Apache installation.

Modules can be enabled (in httpd.conf) with the LoadModule directive e.g. for mod_rewrite, the module is enabled with:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

There is an index of all of the available directives for the current Apache release available here. There is an index of all of the available modules for the current release available here.

For the specific directives you have asked about:

  1. RewriteEngine, RewriteBase, RewriteCond and RewriteRule are provided by mod_rewrite. If you have that module enabled, then you will have those directives available.

  2. Deny, Allow and Order are access control directives that are deprecated for versions of Apache after v2.2. For Apache v2.4+, you should use Require instead. Examples of the new syntax are available here. You will usually need to enable mod_authz_core and mod_authz_host to make common Require options available.

  3. AddHandler is provided by mod_mime.

  4. DirectoryIndex is provided by mod_dir.

  5. Options is part of Apache's core functionality and is always available.

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