RE: apache query

["Randy Orrison" <Randy.Orrison@keswickcomputers.co.uk>]

| From: Mark Carroll [mailto:markc@chiark.greenend.org.uk] 
| Sent: 21 October 2002 14:33
| 
| I don't need apache to be serving my machine's documentation 
| as /doc/ and certainly don't want it broadcasting to the rest 
| of the Internet effectively what packages and versions I have 
| installed, for security reasons. So, I commented out "Alias 
| /doc/ /usr/doc/" from srm.conf.

Note that in /etc/apache/httpd.conf just after the /doc/ alias line is:
	<Location /doc>
	  order deny,allow
	  deny from all
	  allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
	  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
	</Location>
Which says that the /doc/ alias is only available from localhost, and
not from anywhere else in the world.  I always go in and add "allow from
192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0" so I can get at it from other machines on my
LAN.

| Was commenting the line out the wrong way to do this? What 
| can I do to stop these aliases being added again by future "upgrades"?

I don't know how to do that, but then I've never wanted to.

	-Randy