Options directive

Purpose

The Options directive controls which server features are available in a given directory.

This directive applies to both the Global ACF as well as per-directory ACFs.

Options opt1 opt2 ... optn

Each opt is one of the following:

None
No features are enabled for in directory.
All
All features are enabled for in directory.
FollowSymLinks
The server will follow symbolic links in this directory.
SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
The server will only follow symbolic links for which the target file/directory is owned by the same user id as the link.
ExecCGI
Execution of CGI scripts is allowed in this directory.
Includes
Server side include files are enabled in this directory.
Indexes
The server allows users to request indexes in this directory. Disabling this option disables ONLY the server-generated indexes. It does not stop the server from sending any precompiled index file it may find in there (the name of which depends on DirectoryIndex).
IncludesNoExec
This enables server side includes in the directory, but disables the exec feature.

If no Options directives are given for this directory or any of its parents, httpd assumes:

Options All

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

The server would allow users to index this directory and its subdirectories, and would allow symbolic links to be used within.

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