.htaccess file and reported error

[Apache2.0.48 on Suse 9.0]

I have under my directory /srv/www/htdocs a directory for test purposes
only.
In the default-server.conf I have these:

<directory "/srv/www/htdocs">
Allowoverride All
Order Deny, Allow
Allow from All
</directory>

Then in .htacces in area51 I have this:

<directory "/srv/www/htdocs/area51">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
Allow from 10.0.0.150
</directory>

That ip address is my other machine's. However, regardless of what i specify
there I get a server error 500 when I try to access anything in that
directory, be it html or php. Once I remove the .htaccess file altogether I
can again see the contents of that directory.

I tried different orders, different settings in default-server.conf,
directly in httpd.conf but all to no avail.
Why is that and why do I get a 500 error and not a Forbidden ?

TIA
Pjotr

Pjotr Wedersteers napisa³(a):


 > Then in .htacces in area51 I have this:
 >
 > <directory "/srv/www/htdocs/area51">
 > Order Allow,Deny
 > Deny from all
 > Allow from 10.0.0.150
 > </directory>

..htaccess is a per-directory config file, so you don't have to
<directory> it.

Try just:

Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from 10.0.0.150

just like that.

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html</a>

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