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djangofan
Asked: 2011-12-20 16:39:17 +0800 CST

Get Apache2.2 to hide Microsoft documents that are being edited?

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I have a htdocs directory where I am serving a few Microsoft Word documents. When someone is editing a document, the name of the document changes to look like something like this: "~$my_document.doc" and also .tmp files are created that represent edits of the document until the document is closed.

So, I want Apache to not serve these files until the user is finished editing them. So, I want to hide files ending with .tmp extension at the same time that I am hiding files that start with "~$" .

So, can anyone help me enhance this Apache directive to accomplish this?

<Directory "C:/Apache2.2/htdocs">
    <Files ~ "\.tmp$">
      Order allow,deny
      Deny from all
    </Files>
.....
</Directory>

This is a regular expression trick that is beyond my ability right now.

apache-2.2 regex httpd.conf regular-expressions

2 Answers

  1. Do another <Files> block with the expression ^~\$.

    Keep in mind that the original file doesn't disappear when the file's being edited - if that's a problem for what you're looking to do, then you'll need some more complex regex voodoo.

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  2. Best Answer

    I don't have a system to test, but I would suppose you need to do something like this.

    This should match either any file name that starts with a ~$ followed by anything, and any files that end in .tmp.

    <FilesMatch "(~\$.*|\.tmp)$"> ... </FilesMatch>
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