Re: Spurious access denied errors (Apache Users)

At first glance, something in your browser is probably requesting the page /test. Since it doesn't correspond to any of your alias statements, it hits the DocumentRoot which you have denied access to.

Is there a corresponding entry in your access log?

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Sent from a device with a very small keyboard and hyperactive autocorrect.

On Feb 9, 2018 4:43 AM, "Marat Khalili" <mkh@xxxxxx> wrote:

Dear list,

I've installed and configured mediawiki as follows (on top of default Ubuntu 16.04 Apache/2.4.18 installation):

        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        <Directory /var/www>
                Options None
                Require all denied
        </Directory>

        <Directory /opt/local/mediawiki>
                Options ExecCGI
                Require host proxy.example.com
        </Directory>
        <Directory /mnt/mediawiki/images>
                Options None
                Require host proxy.example.com
        </Directory>

        Alias /wiki /opt/local/mediawiki/index.php
        Alias /w/images /mnt/mediawiki/images
        Alias /w /opt/local/mediawiki

*Everything works*, i.e. client successfully receive all pages with appropriate HTTP statuses in both client and Apache access log. However, for each request like /wiki/test I see the following extra message in error.log:

[Fri Feb 09 09:35:25.368731 2018] [authz_core:error] [pid 695] [client 10.4.1.4:56622] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/test

If I remove <Directory /var/www> clause, these messages disappear. They trigger fail2ban and are generally confusing. What may be causing them and how to make them stop?

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With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili

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