[Chameleon] How do I limit the access of the Chameleon folder

[Paul Spencer]

Hi,

put your application in a directory parallel to the chameleon directory:

/ms4w/apps/chameleon/
/ms4w/apps/myApp/

then create an htdocs (or whatever you want to call it) directory  
inside myApp that will contain only the web-accessible portion of  
your application

then create an alias file in /ms4w/httpd.d/ ... see one of the  
existing files.  It MUST be named httpd_<something>.conf to work.   
Then restart apache and your new alias will point to your htdocs  
folder only, the rest of your app is hidden to the web.

example alias file:

Alias /myApp "/ms4w/apps/myApp/htdocs"
<Directory "/ms4w/apps/myApp/htdocs">
   AllowOverride None
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>

and the url becomes http://localhost/myApp

Cheers

Paul

On 11-Nov-05, at 10:56 AM, Steven De Vriendt wrote:

> I've set up ms4w with chameleon on localhost. I've set up
> an application folder under the chameleon/htdocs folder
> now I see that everything in my web directory can be
> browsed...How can I set up a working envirnoment where
> only access to my application dir is done ??
>
> Thanks to the list and developpers of mapserver
> and chameleon for their great effort making this a
> wonderfull tool !
>
>
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