features (<code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> and
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_include.html#xbithack">XBitHack</a></code>).
An equal sign may be given followed by a comma (but no spaces)
- separated lists of options that may be set using the <code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> command.</dd>
+ separated lists of options that may be set using the <code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> command.
+
+ <div class="note"><h3>Implicit disabling of Options</h3>
+ <p>Even though the list of options that may be used in .htaccess files
+ can be limited with this directive, as long as any <code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> directive is allowed any
+ other inherited option can be disabled by using the non-relative
+ syntax. In other words, this mechanism cannot force a specific option
+ to remain <em>set</em> while allowing any others to be set.
+ </p></div>
+ </dd>
</dl>
<p>Example:</p>
Alias /image /ftp/pub/image
</code></p></div>
- <p>A request for <code>http://myserver/image/foo.gif</code> would cause
+ <p>A request for <code>http://example.com/image/foo.gif</code> would cause
the server to return the file <code>/ftp/pub/image/foo.gif</code>. Only
complete path segments are matched, so the above alias would not match a
- request for <code>http://myserver/imagefoo.gif</code>. For more complex
+ request for <code>http://example.com/imagefoo.gif</code>. For more complex
matching using regular expressions, see the <code class="directive"><a href="#aliasmatch">AliasMatch</a></code> directive.</p>
<p>Note that if you include a trailing / on the
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /web/cgi-bin/
</code></p></div>
- <p>A request for <code>http://myserver/cgi-bin/foo</code> would cause the
+ <p>A request for <code>http://example.com/cgi-bin/foo</code> would cause the
server to run the script <code>/web/cgi-bin/foo</code>. This configuration
is essentially equivalent to:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</code></p></div>
- <p>then a request for <code>http://myserver/docs/</code> would
- return <code>http://myserver/docs/index.html</code> if it
+ <p>then a request for <code>http://example.com/docs/</code> would
+ return <code>http://example.com/docs/index.html</code> if it
exists, or would list the directory if it did not.</p>
<p>Note that the documents do not need to be relative to the