On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > 2) Apache rules use "Allow from localhost", but seem to fail with the > default hosts file that specifies localhost.localdomain as the > canonical hostname. Using allow from 127.0.0.1 worked out better > for me, and seems to be what the other web app packages I have > installed use. I'm not a user of Mantis, but I do use Apache a lot. I've never had any problems with it using "localhost". The normal /etc/hosts file lists the Linuxism "localhost.localdomain" and has the standard 'localhost" as an alias, that's good enough for Apache. You'd have to have some real name resolution problems for that to fail. Having said that, using allow or deny with a hostname/domain-name does mean that every access has to have a name lookup done (results are cached, though). Whereas using an IP (with or without netmask wildcarding) avoids that step, but means you can't easily apply such rules to hosts that change IPs dynamically. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
