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Date: 27 Dec 1998 11:15:26 -0000
From: Igor Sysoev <igor@nitek.ru>
Reply-To: igor@nitek.ru
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: Order of merging <DirectoryMatch ..>/<Directory ~ ...> and .htaccess
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>Number:         3592
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       Order of merging <DirectoryMatch ..>/<Directory ~ ...> and .htaccess
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 27 03:20:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     igor@nitek.ru
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.3
>Environment:
FreeBSD 2.2.7
>Description:
I used for a long time Apache 1.2.x, recently I upgraded to 1.3.3
and found one difference between 1.2.x and 1.3.3 version.

To avoid unneccasery lookups for .htaccess I used

<Directory />
  AllowOverride None
<Directory>

in 1.2.x config. Then to allow FileInfo overriding in .htaccess
in user home directories I used

<Directory ~ ^/home/.*/web>
  AllowOverride FileInfo
<Directory>

But in 1.3.3 this doesn't work.
In http://www.apache.org/docs/sections.html I found:
---------
How the sections are merged

The order of merging is: 

   1.<Directory> (except regular expressions) and .htaccess
      done simultaneously (with .htaccess overriding <Directory>)
   2.<DirectoryMatch>, and <Directory> with regular expressions
   3.<Files> and <FilesMatch> done simultaneously
   4.<Location> and <LocationMatch> done simultaneously
---------

I think here is some broken logic because <DirectoryMatch ...>
and <Directory ~ ...> can be used to allow overriding
in .htaccess. But with existing merging order it can be done.

with best regads,
Igor Sysoev
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