Controlling the Scope of Per-directory Configuration Files

AllowOverride Indexes Limit AuthConfig

If .htaccess is present in the Context: field in the directive reference syntax description of the Apache documentation, it means that directive can be placed in per-directory configuration files.

The AllowOverride directive allows you to control the kind of configuration directives that can appear in per-directory configuration files. For example, you can let users change directory-indexing directives but not those related to authorization. Possible values are

• Authconfig: Authorization directives

• FileInfo: Directives controlling document types

• Indexes: Directives controlling directory indexing

• Limit: Host access control directives

• Options: Directives controlling specific directory features

• All: All directives belonging to above groups can be used

• None: Disable per-directory configuration files for that directory tree