Bug 33120

Summary: can't read /usr/share/doc in apache
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Runge <crunge>
Component: apacheAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Chris Runge 2001-03-25 16:55:23 UTC 
Florence qa0322

Reading doc doesn't work when "allow from" is set to localhost, but does
when set to 127.0.0.1.

e.g., this is the default /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file that doesn't work:

# Allow access to local system documentation from localhost
Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/
<Location /doc>
  order deny,allow
  deny from all
  allow from localhost
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Location>

this does:

# Allow access to local system documentation from localhost
Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/
<Location /doc>
  order deny,allow
  deny from all
  #allow from localhost
  allow from 127.0.0.1
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Location>
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-03-28 23:23:42 UTC 
The allow statement will be changed to "allow localhost .localdomain" in
apache-1.3.19-4 and later.  Thanks!