Sectioning directives


Definition

Some access control directives require that certain information apply to all directives in a given section. These directives are called sectioning directives.

The formatting of these directives is similar to HTML tags.

For each sectioning directive, there must be two components: an opening directive, and a closing directive. For instance, for the sectioning directive Foo, with one argument data, the opening directive would be:

<Foo data>

The closing argument would be:

</Foo>

The information given in the opening directive will affect all other directives between the opening and closing sectioning directive.


Example

<Directory c:/admin/Web>                    The opening directive
require group physics
</Directory>                                The closing directive

Directory is the sectioning directive. Therefore, the information given by the opening directive, c:/admin/Web, applies to the require directive within.


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