Re: CGI source being exposed using "~"

[crlf () SYMPATICO CA (Mike Waychison)]

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

is what you are looking for

Mike Waychison

> 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>
>
> I have tried adding that to a couple of apache servers with no luck. The
> source is still being displayed. as suggested by a friend i even tried:
>
> <Files ~ "^\.cgi.$">
>    Order allow,deny
>    Deny from all
> </Files>
>
> for blocking files like cgi.text and cgi.bak. I still got the same results.
> is there something im missing?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Brian