Re: Size of Deny file on Alabanza server & syntax

[Golda Velez <(use contact form)>]

Hello Jo

The "deny file" is the .wgfilter-index file that should be in each archive
directory.  There should not be any limit as to the # of lines in the file,
are you getting some kind of error when it goes over 75 lines?

The syntax is just "Allow" or "Deny" followed by a regular expression
matching the filename.  So

Deny (^|/)wgreindex$

just means to not index any file whose name is exactly "wgreindex.php" or ends
with "/wgreindex.php".  If you have a good perl book (any of the Camel books)
you can look up the regexp syntax, or see an online reference such as

		http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/regex.html
or
		http://www.ciser.cornell.edu/info/regex.html

Hope that helps!

--G


At 12:20 AM 1/29/01 -0500, Jo Shea, founder, kanggah.com wrote:
>BACKGROUND:
>I couldn't find mention of this in the archives, or if it was there, I can't
>tell for the syntax being out of my league. I am finding this a lot more
>intense than installing and even modifying a simple Perl script ;o) I also
>don't know the proper name of the file I am referring to as the  "deny file"
>...though I have the G/WG files in my directory tree, I can't tell what file
>this is being pulled up in the control panel. I am on an Alabanza server.
>Glimpse 4.1 and Webglimpse 1.6 are part of their standard options.
>Everything is installed and configured automatically for you at the touch of
>a button, so I do not know any of the specifics of what is standard
>Glimpse/Webglimpse configuration and what was configured by Alabanza for
>their automatic installation. I asked my host for help, who said "we do not
>provide support for changing the default settings".  The only thing we have
>to do as an end user via the control panel is "Directory Administration" -
>this brings up a file with entries such as
>
>Deny \.gif$
>Deny (^|/)wgindex\.html$
>Deny \.glimpse_
>Deny (^|/)wgreindex$
>Deny (^|/)archive.cfg$
>Deny (^|/)\.nh\.
>Deny \?
>Deny ~$
>Deny /cgi-bin
>
>There are about 40 or so lines in here already at installation. I have been
>able to add other file types and folders following these 2 formats (as they
>were pretty easy to figure out by looking - the host manual only mentioned
>these 2, and actually has the extension one wrong.)
>Deny \.extension$
>Deny /folder
>
>QUESTIONS:
>This deny file seems have a limit at 75 lines. Is this changeable? How &
>where? I have a pretty extensive sight...with 23 of these entries having to
>do with G/WG files, that doesn't leave me enough lines.
>
>Is it possible to use a single line to deny all image folders, no matter
>where they appear on site? If so, what is the syntax? I don't understand
>what all that  ^|/   stuff means. Also, is there a wildcard character? My
>forums have boardname.dat each having an equivalent boardname.txt files - I
>would like to deny all forums/ *.dat files while leaving the .txt files
>searchable - what's the syntax without having to list each one individually?
>
>Many Thanks!
>
>Jo
>
>
>
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