Restricting Access to a URI (Path)

You can use a URI to control access to a single user’s content on the web server. URIs are paths and files relative to the server’s document root directory. Using URIs is an easy way to manage your server’s content if you frequently rename or move all or part of it (for example, for disk space). This is also a good method to handle access control if you have additional document roots.

To limit access to a URI, using the steps described for setting access control for a server instance, you would:

To limit access to a URL

1. Use the Server Manager to select the server instance.

2. Choose the Preferences tab.

3. Click the Restrict Access link.

4. Enter the URI you want to restrict in the Type in the ACL name section.

   For example: uri=/my_directory.

5. Click Edit Access Control.

6. Create a new rule to allows all users read access.

7. Create another new rule to allow access for the owner of the directory.

8. Deselect Continue for both the first and second rules.

9. Click Submit and Apply your changes.

   A path for the URI is created relative to the document root. The entry in the ACL file would appear as follows: acl “uri=/my_directory”;