Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

Name

<DirectoryMatch>

Synopsis

                     <DirectoryMatch>
                     ...
                     </DirectoryMatch>
                  

[server config or within <VirtualHost>]

<DirectoryMatch> is a sectioning directive that identifies the directory (and subdirectories) to which contained access-control directives apply. It cannot be used in a per-directory .htaccess file. The start tag has this format:

<DirectoryMatch regex>

where regex is a regular expression that designates one or more directories the enclosed directives apply to.