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From: "Arnoud Jippes" <arnoud.jippes AT gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:54:19 +0200

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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
>
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