On 8/29/05, Dominique Fober <fober@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm running apache on a linux station (detailed versions below) and I > get occasional 403 errors (Directory index forbidden). > > I can completely avoid these 403 errors using the '--cache=off' on the > wget command line. I'm therefore suspecting that some 'cache strategy' > could be involved in the problem but looking at the documentation, I > can't find any explanation (cache seems to be mainly related to proxy > and there is none in the local config and when I use wget). --cache=off tells wget to send Pragma: no-cache, which shouldn't have any effect unless there is some cache or proxy between you and the server. Are you sure you are directly accessing the server? > > Here is some additional information: > > - the server and system version numbers: > Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.50 (Mandrakelinux/7.3.101mdk) > mod_perl/1.99_16 Perl/v5.8.5 mod_ssl/2.0.50 OpenSSL/0.9.7d PHP/4.3.8 > Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 1 11:24:45 CEST 2004 i686 > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (official Mandrake 10.1) Oooo. I get scarded whenever I see that "AdvancedExtranet" stuff. That means a version of apache with random extra hacks added. Who knows what it will do. > > - some reports from error_log: > [Thu Aug 25 11:15:09 2005] [error] [client 81.199.84.124] Directory > index forbidden by rule: /home/www/html/Creation/Residences/Giroudon/ > [Mon Aug 29 17:57:14 2005] [error] [client 194.5.49.22] Directory index > forbidden by rule: /home/www/html/ > errors are on any folder, access rights have been controled > > - an excerpt of the commonhttpd.conf > <Directory /home/www/html> > Options -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews Well, you do have indexes turned off (although your Options line doesn't make a lot of sense -- see the docs for Options). Do you have a file in those directories that matches the DirectoryIndex directive? Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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