From: Rich Bowen Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:55:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Remove another mention of allow, deny, and order, and add a warning X-Git-Tag: 2.3.11~40 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f9de70464df383734684e9a5612e3f1866b583e;p=apache Remove another mention of allow, deny, and order, and add a warning about their use. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1070899 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/docs/manual/howto/access.xml b/docs/manual/howto/access.xml index e27a7c26f9..f35e0c2d58 100644 --- a/docs/manual/howto/access.xml +++ b/docs/manual/howto/access.xml @@ -47,13 +47,23 @@ is access control using mod_rewrite.

mod_authz_host.

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The Allow and - Deny directives let - you allow and deny access based on the host name, or host - address, of the machine requesting a document. The - Order directive goes - hand-in-hand with these two, and tells Apache in which order to - apply the filters.

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The Require + provides a variety of different ways to allow or deny access to + resources. In conjunction with the RequireAll, RequireAny, and RequireNone directives, these + requirements may be combined in arbitrarily complex ways, to enforce + whatever your access policy happens to be.

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The Allow, + Deny, and + Order directives, + provided by mod_access_compat, are deprecated and + will go away in a future version. You should avoid using them, and + avoid outdated tutorials recommending their use. +

The usage of these directives is: