Apache/httpd Allow from directive

[Bob Marcan]

Michael Kearey wrote:
> Hi Al,
> Have been playing with mrtg on Fedora. It provides a 
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/mrtg.conf file with
> 
> Alias /mrtg /var/www/mrtg
> 
> 
> <Location /mrtg>
>     Order Deny,Allow
>     Deny from all
>     Allow from localhost
>     # Allow from .example.com
> </Location>
> 
> 
> 
> This consistently *denies* access from localhost to /mrtg directory. 
> When I set Allow line to
> 
>     Allow from localhost 127.0..1
> 
> all is well and works as expected. This is surely a bug? I looked in 
> Bugzilla and found nothing. Any hints clues or confirmation appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 

Do you have this line in /etc/hosts ?
127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost

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