[SOLVED] 403 problem: OpenSuse 11 with Apache 2.2

fmr · 10-16-2009, 07:11 AM

Hi.
Seeing that I am still a N00B, I do not know how users and groups work in linux, yet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

apache is not running as root in most cases. It starts with root privileges . . . and then drops to the user/group defined by the respective directives (User and Group). Reading Suse documentation for apache, it looks like it run as wwwrun/users, so make sure that the whole /srv/www path is owned and readable/executable by that user/group.

Also: Where do i find there directives? I don't think there is such a user as wwwrun.

Thank you for your patience.

bathory · 10-16-2009, 07:26 AM

Running

Code:

ps -ef|grep httpd

should tell you the user under that runs apache. Then from /etc/group you'll find the group the user belongs to.

Quote:

Also: Where do i find there directives?

You have to search all those included *.conf files for something lijke the following 2 lines:

Code:

User wwwrun
Group users

When you find the user/group that runs apache make sure that everything under /srv/www is owned by that user/group.

Regards

fmr · 10-16-2009, 08:24 AM

It seems to have solved the initial problem!

Now I get this error:

Quote:

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.

The error log states:

Quote:

[error] [client 10.0.0.10] Syntax error in type map, no ':' in /srv/www/htdocs/index.php for header <?php\r\n

It ends right there ...

I do not even know what a cgi script is, and I never needed it when i used Apache and PHP on windows (I used the WAMP package).

There is a folder named cgi-bin in /srv/www with one file in it, named php5.

bathory · 10-16-2009, 08:36 AM

If you have edited index.php in windows there are maybe some special characters in the file.
You can run

Code:

dos2unix index.php index.php

to transform it in unix format.

fmr · 10-16-2009, 08:58 AM

WOOHOO! Thanks alot, everyone!
It is up and running.
Kind regards

bathory · 10-16-2009, 09:07 AM

Cool

You may mark the thread as solved

Best Regards