Introduction to the Apache Web Server - ApacheCon

4.4 Sections
May also see them referred to as containers, or scope.
... directives ...
A section defines the scope in which a particular directive, or directives, are effective. In the above example,
the directives are effective only when content is being loaded from the directory/usr/local/apache/htdocs.
Sections apply to everything beneath them. That is to say, content coming out of/usr/local/apache/htdocs/rodents
is also subject to these directives.
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Options +Indexes
Restricts the contained directives to the specified directory, and subdirectories thereof.
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Options +Indexes
Restricts the contained directives to directories that match the specified pattern. In the given example,
any directory that contains the string download or Download will have the directive applied to it.
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Allowing you to be a little more fine-grained, you can specify a particular file or set of files. The
directive takes just one file as an argument, which is perhaps not expected, given the name
of the directive. To specify more than one file, you can use FilesMatch:
SetType text/plain
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If a particular -D variable is defined, then use this configuration. For example, you might start the
server with:
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