apache and permissions (mod_alias)

disinformation · 12-17-2003, 03:43 PM

Hi im just messing around with Apache for the first time and am struggling with permissions.

i want to give access to a few files inside a directory outside the document root (/var/www), so i have created an alias, for example

Alias /aliens/ /home/matt/aliastest/

When i try to access a file from within that directory i get a 403 forbidden error, i have chmod the file and dir to 777.

By default apache has an alias to /var/www/icons which works fine, so i though i would try to use a folder in /var/www

I tried Alias aliens /var/www/aliastest/

Same result

Can anyone shed any light on this

trickykid · 12-17-2003, 04:09 PM

Add something like this to your httpd.conf file:

Code:

<Directory "/home/matt/aliastest">
    AllowOverride Options FileInfo
</Directory>

I believe that should work, can't remember totally off top of my head though if that's going to do it or not.

disinformation · 12-17-2003, 04:53 PM

didnt work, but didnt stop apache restarting either,

can you give any pointer to some reading on this subject - i trawled throught the apache docs but i must have missed it

evilRhino · 12-17-2003, 11:14 PM

I had this problem before, you might just try sym linking to the the directory in your htdocs directory.

ln -s /path/to/htdocs /home/matt/aliastest

I think it'll work just as well for what you are trying.

disinformation · 12-18-2003, 06:00 AM

trickykid, thanks for pointing me in the right direction I managed to get this working with the following

<Directory /home/matt/aliastest>
Options -Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
<IfModule mod_access.c>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</IfModule>
</Directory>

Now I Just cant get directory listing working, i want to be able to type in just the alias i.e. www.foo.com/aliastest and list the file content of that directory