Re: CGI source being exposed using "~"

[oysteivi () TIHLDE ORG (Oystein Viggen)]

Brian McKinney spake thus:

> Andrew Reisse said:
>
> <On my servers, I put a section like this in httpd.conf to prevent editor
> <backups from being read (which, as you said, might contain passwords or
> <other interesting data)
>
> <Files ~ "^\~">
>     Order allow,deny
>     Deny from all
> </Files>

Try this instead:

<Files ~ "*\~">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</Files>

Seeing as the ^ is right above the * (at least on scandinavian keyboards
and probably many others), it's quite an understandable typo... :)

Oystein

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