On apache how do I allow access to only to a single file?

Question

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 [email protected]
        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?

Solution

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>

Comments

[Nils]

"points to" is what? A symlink in the filesystem, a redirect, a rewrite?

[Nils]

I still dont get it. DocumentRoot` can point to a directory. Not to a file...

[sriram]

@Nils: I have edited my question and added the code which I used to serve the file

[sriram]

Nope now I cant even able to access the test.in. I get forbidden error!

[gertvdijk]

@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?

[sriram]

ya but test.in should be given access to the file test.js. But now I couldn't be able to do that.

[ravi yarlagadda]

@gertvdijk <Files> can't have directory paths - try <Files "test.js"> within the <Directory> block?

[sriram]

Still this doesn't worked@!