Then I only had to read a little further (the next sentence in fact) in the documentation to answer the question I posed:

When to use <Location>

Use <Location> to apply directives to content that lives outside the filesystem. For content that lives in the filesystem, use <Directory> and <Files>. An exception is <Location />, which is an easy way to apply a configuration to the entire server.

Like I said, I’m new to Apache. Thanks again for sharing the tip.

I got /CFIDE/administrator working, but I had to do it BEFORE I setup vhosts and aliases. Even then, I now can access the administrator and run my coldfusion apps, but I cannot seem to get there unless I remove your “Limit GET POST” statement:

Alias /CFIDE /Library/WebServer/Documents/CFIDE
Alias /cfide /Library/WebServer/Documents/CFIDE
<Location /CFIDE/administrator>
Options +FollowSymLinks
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
AuthUserFile /Library/WebServer/Documents/CFIDE/.htpasswd
AuthName “Administrators”
AuthType Basic
# <Limit GET POST>
# require valid-user
# </Limit>
</Location>

Any ideas? Thanks again, you have saved me a lot of time already! I look forward to going through your other posts.

I humbly ask (as a brand new admin to Apache): Why did you use “” instead of “” since it appears your CFIDE folder resides on the same file system? Sorry if I missed something–like I said, I’m new to Apache.

I’ve been struggling with Apache and CF8 for weeks now. More specifically,

> Leopard Server 10.5.x (64-bit)
> Apache 2.x (64-bit tuned down to 32-bit)
> ColdFusion 8.0.1 (32-bit because Enterprise is beyond our needs and budget, and hence the 32-bit Apache2)

Previously I only administered Windows Servers with IIS which from a CF setup standpoint is pretty painless. However, getting CF8 on Leopard (client or server) seems to be a regular pain the OSX+CF community. After weeks of carefully piecing together others’ solutions, I FINALLY have it all working and have a comprehensive install guide. But I got stuck at aliasing the CFIDE folder correctly.

I worked kung fu enough to get multiple websites served by Apache + ColdFusion (using vhosts.conf on my development macbook pro), and each site happily serves up it’s index.cfm, correctly showing me their host names via my test #CGI.HOST_HTTP# code. And I can get to http://mywebsite/CFIDE/install.cfm (which seems to do nothing in my case other than look like a reject page from CF 6.x).

But I can’t get to http://mywebsite/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm. I get the CF error: “File not found: /CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm”.

I am starting to know and love Apache, and was glad to stumble upon your post to help me with CFIDE. So please, do share more!