[CentOS] OT - httpd/conf.d include questions - allowing only some addresses

On Tue, October 7, 2014 8:06 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/
>

For apache to automatically generate index, you need to gave the following
directive:

  Options Indexes

If there is no such directive, and no index.html (or index.php, or
whichever you described as index in config), you will get that error. Read
on apache documentation to see how setting for diretory affect
subdirectories.

Valeri

> 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
>
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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