Apache Issue

Jukas · 07-14-2005, 12:37 PM

I'm running Apache 1.3.33 on a Debian box hosting both public_html for local users (currently just myself and a friend) as well as a couple of my domains using Virtual Host.

What's strange is that directory indexing works fine for local users at domain.com/~user/ but won't work for domains using Virtual Host. I get a forbidden message in the browser and see the following in my logs:

[Thu Jul 14 10:36:04 2005] [error] [client *.*.*.*] Directory index forbidden by rule: /home/user/domain.com/images/

But I can't find the rule that's preventing directory indexing. Anyone clue me in?

barghota · 07-14-2005, 12:52 PM

I didn't try apache on Debian, but i issued a problem on mandriva 2005 just like ur problem

i edited the vhosts (on mandriva its /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf, on redhat its /etc/conf/httpd.conf) so figure out which one u got). I added the directive :

Code:

NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.3

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.3>
ServerName (your virtual host server name)
DocumentRoot (the directory containing the index file)
<Directory (the parent directory of the directory containing the index file)>
       Allow from all
       Options Indexes Includes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and it worked fine.

Hope this would help.

Jukas · 07-14-2005, 01:18 PM

It seems I can enable it either in the Virtual host statement or with .htaccess but what I'm wondering is if there is a way to enable it globally for all virtual hosts and then I can let people deny it for specific directories with .htaccess

barghota · 07-14-2005, 01:33 PM

you will have to make this for each virtual host

Code:

<Directory (the parent directory of the directory containing the index file)>
       Allow from all
       Options Indexes Includes
       AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>

which will read the .htaccess in the server document root, each user will send u the .htaccess file and u have to put it under his document root