One example says to reverse the order to 'deny,allow' if you are denying all and allowing a range of addresses (reading too many manuals and explainations). That did fix the problem for a specific directory access, but not for the 'global' one. On 10/07/2014 09:06 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > My web searching is not finding out the answers to this, so I turn to > you all here. > > I am trying to NOT modify my httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, and only make > changes via includes. I have done that with a 00-init.conf where I > set things like servername and serveradmin. Now I want to move my > allow and denies to a 01-allow.conf include. I tried: > > <Directory "/var/www/html"> > Order allow,deny > deny from all > </Directory> > > as that seems to be what is in the default conf, but I see in the > error_log: > > [Tue Oct 07 08:51:58 2014] [error] [client 208.83.67.156] Directory > index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ > > And maybe this is not the right restriction, because when I make this > change directly in the default httpd.conf, I still can get to the > default web page. > > Now on to the 'allow' statement. All syntax examples I have seen for > it follow: > > allow from 1.1.1.0/24 1.1.2.0/24 2400:cb00:2048:1::/64 > > and soforth. That is each range separated by a space. But > potentially I have 18 ranges to specify, and at least named makes it > easy with each range on its own line ending with a ';'. For now I am > only putting 2 ranges in, but how does one set up a longer list of > allowed ranges? > > thanks > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >