Topic: Problems with htaccess and <location>

[mcole]

I recently found that Apache was suddenly ignoring my root htaccess file. I traced the problem to the following <location> entry...

<Location />
<Limit CONNECT>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Limit>
</Location>

this is the root directory entry

<Directory e:/webroot>
Options FollowSymlinks IncludesNOEXEC ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=banned
</directory>

I have various "Deny" entries in htaccess.

If I remove the <location> block the htaccess correctly blocks denied IP's
but when the <location> block is active entries in htaccess are ignored!

Since it is difficult for me to test different methods of implementing the settings to block attempts to CONNECT (which is the sole reason I have the <location> block which I cribbed from a forum posting) I wonder if anyone can suggest how I can block attempts to use CONNECT while still allowing my htaccess to be effective or indeed knows why this is affecting htaccess at all?

Many thanks.
Mark.

[James Blond]

Do you load the env module?

LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so

How did you declare banned in httpd.conf?

[mcole]

[mcole]

Anyone had any more thoughts about this?

[James Blond]