Question

I’m not sure what is wrong here, but I have the following conf:

    # Root
    <Directory /var/www/xxx/>
            AllowOverride All

            Header always append Directory Home
    </Directory>


    # images
    <Directory /var/www/xxx/images/>
            AllowOverride None

            Order allow,deny
            allow from all

            Header always append Directory images
    </Directory>

Inside the root dir I have an .htaccess file, to include it everywhere in the directory.

What I’m trying to do – is to exclude “images” dir from this configuration.
I’ve added a special header for every directory so I can debug it, and according to the CURL command below – it follow the rules correctly.

< HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
< Directory: Home, images
< Last-Modified: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:47:28 GMT
< ETag: "9e81e5-4069-20b94c00"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 16489
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: image/png

The problem is that I’m receiving 401 instead of 200OK, according to the headers ( Home, images ) – it first get the “All” and then should overwrite it with “None” – but it doesn’t, I’m still receiving the 401, what can be the problem here ?

Answer 1

By using the “Satisfy Any” I solved the problem of having no AUTH for a sub-directory

<Directory /var/www/xxx/images/>
    allow from all
    Satisfy Any

    Header always append Directory images
</Directory>