On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Marc wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:35:08 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell" wrote:
>
> >What I've found is that if the main configuration is amended by adding
> >"satisfy all", thus:
> >
> ><Files ~ "^\.ht">
> > Order allow,deny
> > Deny from all
> > satisfy all
> ></Files>
> >
> >then by default it works as intended.
>
> I'm still using apache 1.3.33, and this is exactly how it is configured.

Thanks. So it is! I even checked an old version 1.3.28 that I
happened to have around here, and it's the same.

> I don't know why "satisfy all" was removed in v2.

Strange, isn't it? I've now downloaded the latest stable version
(2.0.54) and it, too, is missing the "satisfy all" which we see in the
1.3.* versions.

Unless someone from Apache cares to step in and comment on this, I'll
try to take a moment later to call this in to Apache HQ as a buglet in
version 2.

best regards