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[EP-tech] Re: Restricting Creation of Accounts
From: Francis Jayakanth <franc AT ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:33:38 +0530 (IST)
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*** http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/id/%(ID)s *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/ On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, John Salter wrote: > *** ↵ http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/id/%3C9F617F4F3E257A4DBBD1E5FC7F57F7CA41CBA9%40HERMES2.ds.leeds.ac.uk%3E > *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/ > > You might want to set up a 403 ErrorDocument > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument > > Cheers, > John John, Thanks very much for your suggestion. Our IR now displays a customized error message when there is an access to the restricted file. We did it by inserting the ErrorDocument directive in the auto-apache.conf file. - Francis > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-eprints-tech AT ecs.soton.ac.uk > [mailto:owner-eprints-tech AT ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Francis > Jayakanth > Sent: 17 October 2008 06:12 > To: Arnoud Jippes > Cc: EPrints.org Technical List > Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Restricting Creation of Accounts > > *** > http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/id/%3CPine.LNX.4.64.0810171032370.7350%4 > 0ncsi.iisc.ernet.in%3E > *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/ > > Yes, Arnoud. Thanks to Ben Wheeler, he had suggested that the Location > directive might work. I tried it and it works fine for us. This is the > entry I have in my /Archiveid/var/auto-apache.conf: > > <Location "/cgi/register"> > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > Allow from 10. > </Location> > > What is happening now is that any request coming from other than > Intranet, Forbidden message is displayed. I would actually like to > display our own error message. I'm not quite sure how it implement this. > Any suggestion on this are most welcome. > > Many thanks, > > - Francis > > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Arnoud Jippes wrote: > >> Did you find a solution Francis? >> >> I would like to restrict /cgi/user to our intranet by ip ranges, but >> the perl handler seems to override my deny all en allow from? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Arnoud. >> >>> For our repository, we want to restrict creation of user accounts >>> only to requests coming from the machines on our Intranet. I have >>> been trying to implement this by inserting the <Files> ↵ Directive in > the 'auto-apache.conf' >>> file, but so far I have not been successful. I would appreciate if >>> somebody can let me know the right approach to implement this > feature. >>> >>> The location of 'auto-apache.conf is: >>> >>> /opt/eprints3/archives/ArchiveID/var >>> >>> The 'auto-apache.conf' file already has the following entries: >>> >>> <Directory "/opt/eprints3/cgi"> >>> SetHandler perl-script >>> PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry >>> PerlSendHeader Off >>> Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks >>> </Directory> >>> >>> I have introduced the <Files> directive and the ↵ <Directory> entry now > >>> reads as below: >>> >>> <Directory "/opt/eprints3/cgi"> >>> SetHandler perl-script >>> PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry >>> PerlSendHeader Off >>> Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks >>> <Files "register"> >>> Order deny,allow >>> Deny from all >>> Allow from 10.0.0 >>> </Files> >>> </Directory> >>> >>> Introducing the <Files> directive in the main apache ↵ configuration >>> file has also not helped. We are using Apache 2.2.4 and Eprints ↵ 3.1 >>> >>> Thanks very much for your attention. >>> >>> - Francis >>> >>> NCSI, IISc >>> Bengaluru, India >>> >>> -- >>> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by >>> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by >> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. >> > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. FOOTER (%(LIST)s)
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