[SOLVED] apache permission errors

trscookie · 05-03-2011, 10:19 AM

Hello all,

I know that this issue comes up time and time again however I have tried everything I can think of and followed every guide to no avail.

I have enabled apache userdir's like so:

(/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)

Code:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    UserDir public_html
</IfModule> 

#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
#<Directory "/home/sharedusers/*/public_html">
# order allow,deny
# allow from all
#</Directory>

<Directory /home/sharedusers/*/public_html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

This is my directory structure:

Code:

[root@donkey ~]# ls -ltr /home/sharedusers/home/sh_test/ -R
/home/sharedusers/home/sh_test/:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 sh_test apache 4096 May  3 15:25 Maildir
drwx--x--x 2 sh_test apache 4096 May  3 15:55 public_html

/home/sharedusers/home/sh_test/Maildir:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 sh_test apache 4096 May  3 15:25 new
drwxr-xr-x 2 sh_test apache 4096 May  3 15:25 cur

/home/sharedusers/home/sh_test/Maildir/new:
total 0

/home/sharedusers/home/sh_test/Maildir/cur:
total 0

/home/sharedusers/home/sh_test/public_html:
total 4
-rwx--x--x 1 sh_test apache 207 May  3 15:55 index.html
[root@donkey ~]#

SELinux:

Code:

[root@donkey ~]# /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_read_user_content on
setsebool:  SELinux is disabled.
[root@donkey ~]#

Groups:

Code:

[root@donkey ~]# cat /etc/group | grep sh_test
apache:x:48:root,trscookie,sh_test
ssh:x:5003:trscookie,trssimon,sh_test
[root@donkey ~]#

HTTP:

Code:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~sh_test/ on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at xx.xx.xx.48 Port 80

Does anybody have any more ideas?

Many many thanks in advance,

trscookie.

bathory · 05-03-2011, 11:20 AM

Wrong permissions for index page:

Quote:

/home/sharedusers/home/sh_test/public_html:
total 4
-rwx--x--x 1 sh_test apache 207 May 3 15:55 index.html

It should be 644 (-rw-r--r--)

Regards

trscookie · 05-03-2011, 11:26 AM

Thanks for the reply, I have tried this however it still isnt working :'(:

Code:

[root@donkey public_html]# chmod 644 index.html 
[root@donkey public_html]# ll
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 sh_test apache 207 May  3 15:55 index.html
[root@donkey public_html]# ll

bathory · 05-03-2011, 11:41 AM

Clear your browser cache and try again

trscookie · 05-03-2011, 11:42 AM

...still same error

trscookie · 05-03-2011, 12:00 PM

Apache conf:

Code:

ServerTokens OS
ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"
PidFile run/httpd.pid
Timeout 120
KeepAlive Off
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers       8
MinSpareServers    5
MaxSpareServers   20
ServerLimit      256
MaxClients       256
MaxRequestsPerChild  4000
</IfModule>
<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers         2
MaxClients         150
MinSpareThreads     25
MaxSpareThreads     75 
ThreadsPerChild     25
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>
Listen 80
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authn_alias_module modules/mod_authn_alias.so
LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so
LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so
LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authz_owner_module modules/mod_authz_owner.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so
LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so
LoadModule ldap_module modules/mod_ldap.so
LoadModule authnz_ldap_module modules/mod_authnz_ldap.so
LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule logio_module modules/mod_logio.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule ext_filter_module modules/mod_ext_filter.so
LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
LoadModule suexec_module modules/mod_suexec.so
LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk_cache.so
LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so
LoadModule mem_cache_module modules/mod_mem_cache.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so
Include conf.d/*.conf
Include sites/*.conf
User apache
Group apache
ServerAdmin admin@mydomain.com
UseCanonicalName Off
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    UserDir public_html
</IfModule>
<Directory /home/sharedusers/*/public_html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
AccessFileName .htaccess
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</Files>
TypesConfig /etc/mime.types
DefaultType text/plain
<IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
    MIMEMagicFile conf/magic
</IfModule>
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog logs/error_log
LogLevel warn
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
CustomLog logs/access_log combined
ServerSignature On
Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"
<Directory "/var/www/icons">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<IfModule mod_dav_fs.c>
    # Location of the WebDAV lock database.
    DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb
</IfModule>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable
AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip
AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*
AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core
AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^
DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif
ReadmeName README.html
HeaderName HEADER.html
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t
AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage cs .cz .cs
AddLanguage da .dk
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage eo .eo
AddLanguage es .es
AddLanguage et .et
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage he .he
AddLanguage hr .hr
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddLanguage ko .ko
AddLanguage ltz .ltz
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage nn .nn
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-BR .pt-br
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage sv .sv
AddLanguage zh-CN .zh-cn
AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw
LanguagePriority en ca cs da de el eo es et fr he hr it ja ko ltz nl nn no pl pt pt-BR ru sv zh-CN zh-TW
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
AddHandler type-map var
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
Alias /error/ "/var/www/error/"
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
<IfModule mod_include.c>
    <Directory "/var/www/error">
        AllowOverride None
        Options IncludesNoExec
        AddOutputFilter Includes html
        AddHandler type-map var
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        LanguagePriority en es de fr
        ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
    </Directory>
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "MS FrontPage" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[0123]" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs/1.0" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^XML Spy" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^Dreamweaver-WebDAV-SCM1" redirect-carefully
NameVirtualHost xx.xx.xx.48:80

Guttorm · 05-03-2011, 12:00 PM

Anything in the logs?

sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error.log

trscookie · 05-03-2011, 12:03 PM

these are the errors:

Code:

[root@donkey public_html]# tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Tue May 03 17:48:26 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:26 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:26 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:26 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:27 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:27 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:27 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:27 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:28 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 17:48:28 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied

Guttorm · 05-03-2011, 12:07 PM

Isn't this incorrect? I think only the owner can read the directory.

drwx--x--x 2 sh_test apache 4096 May 3 15:55 public_html

chmod it 755.

trscookie · 05-03-2011, 12:14 PM

Still no joy I'm afraid :'(, I have tried changing the user and changing the permissions, as below:

Code:

[root@donkey home]# chmod 755 -R sh_test/
.bash_history  .bash_logout   .bash_profile  .bashrc        Maildir/       public_html/   .viminfo       
[root@donkey home]# chmod 755 -R sh_test/public_html/
[root@donkey home]# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for donkey
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
                                                           [  OK  ]
[root@donkey home]# chmod 644 sh_test/public_html/index.html 
[root@donkey home]# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for donkey
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
                                                           [  OK  ]
[root@donkey home]# chown apache.apache -R sh_test/public_html/
[root@donkey home]# chown sh_test -R sh_test/public_html/
[root@donkey home]# ls -ltr sh_test/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 sh_test apache 4096 May  3 15:25 Maildir
drwxr-xr-x 2 sh_test apache 4096 May  3 15:55 public_html
[root@donkey home]# tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Tue May 03 18:11:01 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue May 03 18:11:37 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue May 03 18:11:37 2011] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Tue May 03 18:11:37 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue May 03 18:11:37 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue May 03 18:11:37 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue May 03 18:11:42 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 18:11:56 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /var/www/html/trscookie/mysite/robots.txt
[Tue May 03 18:11:56 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /var/www/html/trscookie/mysite/robots.txt
[Tue May 03 18:12:04 2011] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied

bathory · 05-03-2011, 12:24 PM

Oups, I've now noticed that you use a different homedir tree (/home/sharedusers/home/sh_test instead of /home/sh_test)
For this to work you need to use DirectoryMatch

Code:

<DirectoryMatch /home(.*)/public_html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</DirectoryMatch>

or use explicitly <Directory /home/sharedusers/home/*/public_html>

trscookie · 05-03-2011, 12:43 PM

Oh dear, still no joy im afraid! I just dont understand it! I have tried:

Code:

<Directory /home/sharedusers/home/*/public_html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

and

Code:

<DirectoryMatch /home(.*)/public_html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</DirectoryMatch>

Log:

Code:

[root@donkey home]# tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Tue May 03 18:31:55 2011] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/public_html denied
[Tue May 03 18:31:57 2011] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 18:31:59 2011] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied
[Tue May 03 18:31:59 2011] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] (13)Permission denied: access to /~sh_test/ denied

Code:

http://xx.xx.xx.xx/~sh_test/

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~sh_test/ on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at xx.xx.xx.xx Port 80

bathory · 05-03-2011, 12:59 PM

OK, start from / and list the permissions of all folders:

Code:

ls -ld /
ls -ld /home
ls -ld /home/sharedusers
ls -ld /home/sharedusers/home
ls -ld /home/sharedusers/home/sh_test
ls -ld /home/sharedusers/home/sh_test/public_html

All directories must be 755 and the files inside public_html 644 (at least)

trscookie · 05-03-2011, 01:03 PM

WOOOOO, thanks it was 755 on /home/sharedusers/home/sh_test that has sorted it! Thanks

Code:

[root@donkey home]# ls -ld /home/sharedusers/home/sh_test
drwxr-xr-x 4 sh_test apache 4096 May  3 16:24 /home/sharedusers/home/sh_test
[root@donkey home]#