ACO, Vhosts and IgnoreEXT with Apache Web Agent
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Issue/Introduction
Running Web Agent, how to remove the ACO ignoreext parameter and keeping the Web Agent protecting resources?
How to keep those extensions not being protected by configuration of Apache, to do the same thing as ignoreext ACO parameter?
Is it possible to manage multiple ACO by Apache Server?
Resolution
When running a Web Agent with Apache, the Web Agent catches all the requests before the Apache Web Server.
This is per design.
This is as per security concerns too. This is to fully protect the resources on Apache Web Server.
So said, there's no way for Apache configuration to unprotect the resource extensions defined in the ACO ignoreext parameter.
The Apache Web Server will have no way to handle the Authentication Scheme extensions as .FCC, etc. These are specific to SiteMinder.
It is possible to "manage multiple ACO by Apache Server" as per documentation, by setting virtual servers, each of them can have its own ACO (1).
On some virtual hosts, use IgnoreHost ACO parameter to host images, static component, etc. (2)(3).
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