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

The emphasized words are here for clarification; they would not appear in the actual configuration file.

<Directory /u/Web>                          The opening directive
require group physics
</Directory>                                The closing directive

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