Suse 10.2 Apache 2.2.3 - directory browsing not working

paulikus · 10-05-2009, 10:59 PM

I'm trying to get directory browsing working from a web site and get 403 permission denied no matter what. I've been through many many google articles on how to allow this but none of them work. restarting apache2 each time a change is made to httpd.conf but no change. for example, latest entry i tried is:

<Directory "/SC" >
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Indexes
AllowOverride all
</Directory>

kbp · 10-06-2009, 08:58 AM

Hi,

Do you have an 'Order' directive anywhere in your config ?

eg.

Code:

...
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
...

cheers

kbp

paulikus · 10-06-2009, 01:44 PM

I added this to the httpd.conf, restarted apache, but no joy

# use .htaccess files for overriding,
AccessFileName .htaccess
# and never show them
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Files>

kbp · 10-06-2009, 06:00 PM

Does '/SC' map to a directory that the apache user can read ?

paulikus · 10-07-2009, 07:35 AM

"/SC" is symbolic link which points to the dir /home/SC. The ownership is root:root but permission is wide open (777)

paulikus · 10-07-2009, 05:32 PM

I also see this in the error_log:

[Wed Oct 07 13:58:21 2009] [error] [client 10.127.122.111] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/SC/iUSC_Logs/, referer: http://i17smba1

kbp · 10-07-2009, 05:40 PM

Sorry, the permissions on the symlink are 777 or the permissions on the directory are 777 ? ... it's probably not necessary to allow write access to the directory - perhaps you could change the permissions to 755 ?

paulikus · 10-15-2009, 06:11 PM

I found my problem. the Options in httpd.conf were apparently getting nullified by the line:
"Include /etc/apache2/default-server.conf". The file didn't even exist. I commented it out, did a rcapache restart and directory browsing is working!