Apache "Forbidden 403" on index

flycast · 03-29-2007, 08:30 PM

I have a default Apache installation. When I try to acces the index at http://localhost I get:

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Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

My configuration file with comments removed has:

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<Directory "/root/httpd/prefork/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
</Directory>

There is an index.html.en file in that folder.

I have this in the config file:

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DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

Owner, group and others can read the file. I have searched this forum and have found lots of posts but none are my situation and none have helped me get past this. I am sure that it is a simple configuration thing I am running out of ideas.

kstan · 03-29-2007, 09:28 PM

where u put the index.html? inside document root? /var/www/html?

flycast · 03-29-2007, 10:14 PM

There are the default files like index.html.en in

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/root/httpd/prefork/htdocs

There are also images that I have tried to request by name as well as requesting http://localhost/index.html and http://localhost/index.html.en all to no avail. Also my document root is

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DocumentRoot "/root/httpd/prefork/htdocs"

anon243 · 03-30-2007, 01:51 AM

Hi.

Apache2 usually runs as www-data user and group and /root directory usually only can be accessed by root user so check your permissions on /root.

Why do you place your webpage there the default is /var/www.

kstan · 03-30-2007, 01:54 AM

what distro u use? seldom see the document root under /root directory. normally a directory able to access by apache should in this permission.
foldername drwxr-xr-x

flycast · 04-01-2007, 08:56 AM

That's where mod_perl installed it.
My permissions are 777 on both the folder and all the files in theroot directory (/root/httpd/prefork/htdocs)
I am running apache as user backuppc group backuppc. The folder and files are all owned by backuppc. I have set me logging level of apache to the most verbose setting possible and all I get is the [

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Sun Apr 01 08:44:11 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

kstan · 04-02-2007, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by flycast

That's where mod_perl installed it.
My permissions are 777 on both the folder and all the files in theroot directory (/root/httpd/prefork/htdocs)
I am running apache as user backuppc group backuppc. The folder and files are all owned by backuppc. I have set me logging level of apache to the most verbose setting possible and all I get is the [

no matter how(setting permission 777 inside a documentroot is not a good practise), have you make sure apache user can access /root?

I afraid apache have no permission to reach /root/httpd/prefork/htdocs since he need to access /root 1st.
Regards,
Ks

flycast · 04-02-2007, 06:31 PM

I now understand what you are saying. I thought that if the folder and all it's containing files were marked 777 then it would be world readable by anybody therefore Apache could read it as well. Is this not the case?

kstan · 04-02-2007, 08:35 PM

the question is whether apache have read/execute permission for
/root/httpd/prefork/htdocs
/root/httpd/prefork
/root/httpd
/root

or not.