Re: Q1. Apache httpd-2.4.9 configuration : client denied by server configuration error

[Edgar Pettijohn <edgar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try:

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>


<Directory "/var/data/ca.harte-lyne/public_html">
Options +Indexes -Multiviews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

On 09/26/2014 11:24 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:

OS=CentOS-6.5

We have locally built and packaged this version of httpd to replace httpd-2.2
which ships with CentOS-6.5.  Upon restarting the upgraded httpd server we
received the error message "client denied by server configuration".  The
distributed conf/httpd.conf configuration file contains this:


<Directory />
   AllowOverride none
   Require all denied
</Directory>


The virtual server that reported the error contains this:
<VirtualHost 216.185.71.167:443>
  DocumentRoot "/var/data/ca.harte-lyne/public_html"
. . .
  <Directory "/var/data/ca.harte-lyne/public_html">
    AllowOverride all
    Options +Indexes -Multiviews
    Require all granted
  </Directory>

  <Location />
    Require all granted
    SetEnv RAILS_ENV production
  </Location>
. . .

The only way we could get this virtual server to respond instead of logging a
'client denied by server configuration' error was to comment out the
directives in httpd.conf as shown.

<Directory />
#   AllowOverride none
#   Require all denied
</Directory>


Is this in fact what we needed to do?  If not then what should we have done?