[Gllug] apache question

[Stuart Sears]

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Alain Williams wrote:
> I moaned to people to NOT put large attachments in email, but to put up links instead.
> OK they said, but we don't have access to a web server where we can put things.
> I have written a simple email handling script that saves files on a web server and
> returns them a URL that they can put into email to others on the mail list.
> 
> It works well. It then occurred to me what happens if they put up a file: delete_everything.php ?
> 
> Question: how to I get Apache to serve up all files in a particular directory as straight
> files, no trying to run as a CGI or whatever ?
> 
> I want to allow that to still work in other directories.
> 
> I have played with a few Options but have not got anywhere ...

Have you looked at ForceType ?
from waht i read this might help a bit...
(it's also in the apache2.2 docs, but this is teh first mentin that I
found of it...)

<from http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_mime.html#forcetype >
###########

ForceType  directive
Syntax: ForceType media-type|None
Context: directory, .htaccess
Status: Base
Module: mod_mime
Compatibility: ForceType is only available in Apache 1.1 and later.

When placed into an .htaccess file or a <Directory> or <Location>
section, this directive forces all matching files to be served as the
content type given by media type. For example, if you had a directory
full of GIF files, but did not want to label them all with ".gif", you
might want to use:

    ForceType image/gif

Note that this will override any filename extensions that might
determine the media type.

You can override any ForceType setting by using the value of none:

    # force all files to be image/gif:
    <Location /images>
      ForceType image/gif
    </Location>

    # but normal mime-type associations here:
    <Location /images/mixed>
      ForceType none
    </Location>
#################

that and some options directives to turn off CGI and so on may be what
you need.


Regards

Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
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