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I have a apache machine which is serving a .js file. That file should be the only file that need to seen.

Edit:

I have configured to do so in my apache like this :

<VirtualHost *:7090>
        ServerAdmin localhost@test.in
        DirectoryIndex test.js
        DocumentRoot /var/www/test
        ServerName test.in
</VirtualHost>


<Location /var/www/test/test.js>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Location>

The site address is test.in which points to test.js file in /var/www/test directory. That is working fine. But I wish when the user tries to hit test.in/someurl (which is not available) or some other url than test.in need to give an message with 401 error.

How do I do that?

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"points to" is what? A symlink in the filesystem, a redirect, a rewrite? – Nils Dec 10 '12 at 14:49
@Nils: I have setup my virtualhost with the attribute DocumentRoot which is pointing to that file. – sriram Dec 11 '12 at 11:29
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I still don`t get it. DocumentRoot can point to a directory. Not to a file... – Nils Dec 11 '12 at 22:11
Maybe @sriram would like to map the URI / to the test.js resource transparently for the user/client. In that case we can use an Alias directive or a RewriteRule. – gertvdijk Dec 12 '12 at 1:01
@Nils: I have edited my question and added the code which I used to serve the file – sriram Dec 12 '12 at 6:52

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The Location directive matches URIs, not directly related to files on the filesystem. I suggest to use Directory and Files instead, like this:

<Directory "/var/www/test">
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    <Files "test.js">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Files>
</Directory>
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Nope now I cant even able to access the test.in. I get forbidden error! – sriram Dec 10 '12 at 13:11
@sriram That was exactly your request if I read correctly. "That file should be the only file that need to seen." So all other files including the default index files should not be accessible, right? – gertvdijk Dec 10 '12 at 13:18
ya but test.in should be given access to the file test.js. But now I couldn't be able to do that. – sriram Dec 10 '12 at 13:23
@gertvdijk <Files> can't have directory paths - try <Files "test.js"> within the <Directory> block? – Shane Madden Dec 11 '12 at 5:42
@ShaneMadden so true! fixed. – gertvdijk Dec 11 '12 at 9:30
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You have specifically allowed access to your test.js file, but you need to disallow access to the overlying folder as well.

<Location /var/www/test/>
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</Location>
<Location /var/www/test/test.js>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Location>
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