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I have 5 virtual hosts in httpd.conf. All of them have the configuration below except for one.
<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from IP.ADDRESS.GOES.HERE
</Location>
I think it would be better to tell all virtual hosts to have this except for one. Currently, I am telling each virtual host one by one to have this. Is there a wild card method to apply this setting to all virtual hosts and then remove this stanza from one of the virtual hosts in httpd.conf?
Yes, you can define your global <Location> in the main apache configuration, before your <Virtualhost> directives and then override it with the same <Location> inside one of your virtualhosts.
<Location />
# some directives
</Location>
<Virtualhost *:80>
<Location />
# some other directives
</Location>
<Virtualhost>
See https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#location and https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/directive-dict.html#Context for more - the reason this works is because <Location> is valid in both the "server config" and "virtual host" contexts.
