.htaccess issue - CentOS
 

Greetings all,


I've created an .htaccess file in the root of my web server (/var/www/html) to block 1 particular ip from accessing the site.

Here it is:

<Files .htaccess>
deny from all
</Files>
deny from ***.***.***.***

Fairly simple right? Everything works fine...i've tested it from that particular IP and the user couldnt access anything. For example: mysite.com/games or mysite.com/pics would return a 403 unauthorized page like it should.

My problem lies in that when the person visits www.mysite.com they don't get the 403 error page. They get the CentOS Apache test page. I'm totally dumbfounded as to what is causing this...can anyone shed some light?


Thanks!

What is the error page in httpd.conf?
 

Just a thought....
Can you access /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf? (s/httpd/apache/)
maybe an error page can be configured there. I'm not cognizant of an "htaccess deny" error page but haven't researched it.

Check your apache error log. Probably apache can't read your .htaccess file and is complaining about it.

If you still have this issue:
Make a custom 403 error page
add this to the .htaccess
ErrorDocument 403 /403.html
and have the contents of the error file in there.

29t88, please don't bring dead threads back to life (necroposting). We value your time and energy, and encourage you to spend it helping members with current issues. I'm closing this zombie thread so it may rest in peace.