Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition By Robert Eckstein, Stephen Spainhour
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Chapter 18. Apache Configuration
<DirectoryMatch>
<DirectoryMatch> ... </DirectoryMatch>
[ server config or within <VirtualHost>]
<DirectoryMatch> is a sectioning directive that identifies the directory (and subdirectories) to which contained access-control directives apply. It cannot be used in a per-directory .htaccess file. The start tag has this format:
<DirectoryMatch regex >
where regex is a regular expression that designates one or more directories the enclosed directives apply to.