Apache problem with displaying compression/archive files.

Akujin · 01-23-2005, 04:10 PM

I'm having a problem viewing compression (.zip, .tar, .tar.gz ... ) files on my apache server. Any time I attempt, or a user attempts, to view such a file they're redirected to a file permission error page:

Quote:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /some_zip_file.zip on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) Server at akujin.com Port 80

The zip files are all set up with the correct permissions for viewing.

I've searched through the conf files, and tried finding a solution on the apache site and various search engines with no avail.

Anyone know how to solve for this?

david_ross · 01-24-2005, 12:39 PM

What are the permissions on the files and the directory they are in?
ls -la /path/to/dir

Akujin · 02-06-2005, 12:41 PM

I've tried every combination of permissions, i'm positive that isn't the problem. I've even tried changing the owner of Apache.

dlaudams · 03-09-2005, 12:22 AM

SELinux may be causing the permission problems.

Do you happen have SELinux installed? Are you using Fedora Cora 3 or a 2.6 kernel?

See this for how to disable SELinux: http://www.apache-httpd.com/msg/14530.html

Or see this for how to configure SELinux for your setup: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/policy2/t1.html

Daniel.

dlaudams · 03-09-2005, 02:18 AM

To keep using SELinux, try running this:
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t some_zip_file.zip

SELinux should give better security for webservers and the like. Why couldn't apache just say it was a SELinux permissioning problem...?

Daniel