What is the point of the <Directory / > definition in apache configurations?

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Published on 2010-05-14T02:27:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 2:34 UTC
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I noticed that lots of example apache configuration files (and the one that came with my installation) have a block like: Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None

But I can't understand or find an explanation of what this is for. I mean, what would the web server be doing in any directory other than the document root?

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