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If multiple (non-regular expression) <Directory> sections match the
directory (or one of its parents) containing a document, then the
directives are applied in the order of shortest match first,
interspersed with the directives from the .htaccess files. For example,
with

<Directory />
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory /home/>
AllowOverride FileInfo
</Directory>

for access to the document /home/web/dir/doc.html the steps are:

    * Apply directive AllowOverride None (disabling .htaccess files).
    * Apply directive AllowOverride FileInfo (for directory /home).
    * Apply any FileInfo directives in /home/.htaccess,
/home/web/.htaccess and /home/web/dir/.htaccess in that order.



> I have the LDAP authentication/authorization working just fine, 
> except that it seems to only match against the root directives and 
> never tries to match against the /admin/ directives.


I would suggest taking the trailing slash off the admin directory
directive.

<Directory /admin>

Hope that helps.


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