## 3.14. CERN Metafiles

A metafile is a file with extra header data to go with the file served -- for example, you could add a `Refresh` header. There seems no obvious place for this material, so we will put it here, with apologies to those readers who find it rather odd.

### 3.14.1. MetaFiles

>     MetaFiles [on|off]
>     Default: off
>     Directory

Turns metafile processing on or off on a directory basis.

### 3.14.2. MetaDir

>     MetaDir directory_name
>     Default directory_name: .web
>     Directory

Names the directory in which Apache is to look for metafiles. This is usually a "hidden" subdirectory of the directory where the file is held. Set to the value "." to look in the same directory.

### 3.14.3. MetaSuffix

>     MetaSuffix file_suffix
>     Default file_suffix: .meta
>     Directory

Names the suffix of the file containing metainformation.

The default values for these directives will cause a request for DOCUMENT_ROOT/mydir/fred.html to look for metainformation (supplementing the MIME header) in DOCUMENT_ROOT/mydir/fred.html.meta.

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