webserver strangeness.

[Ed Greshko]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 11:19, Steve wrote:

> 
> I have just spent the past hour scouring through the httpd.conf file 
> trying to find any reference to a redirect to a forbbiden document or an 
> index document and I cant find anything. I have set "Indexes" as an option 
> on every <Directory> Idirective I can find in the vain hope that it was 
> something else.
> 
> <rant>
> Whoever in their right mind dreamed up the idea that disabling indexes and 
> making it near on impossible to re-enable them needs a freakin bullet to 
> the head !!! if an admin makes a concious decision to allow a function to 
> happen outside default spec then WHY MAKE IT FREAKIN NEAR ENOUGH TO 
> IMPOSSIBLE TO DOSO ?????
> </rant>
> 
> Ok, so ranting probably doesnt help but I have hardly any hair left.

I feel your pain....but don't have an answer to your ailment.  :-)

Since this seems related more to Apache itself, as opposed to what Red
Hat may have done to it, I'm wondering if you have tried over at
users-subscribe at httpd.apache.org.

http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html


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