On 12/10/05, Stephen Collyer <scollyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an odd problem with an Apache 1.3 installation that > I haven't started for a week or so. > > On doing so, resources accessible via some Aliases are now > all returning 403s, and AFAICT, I can no longer set up any > new Aliases - resources accessible via the new Alias return > 403. > > I'm almost totally certain that none of the config has been altered. > Can anyone: > > 1) suggest what could have screwed up for Alias to break ? > > 2) let me know if there's any way I can get Apache to > tell me why it wants to return a 403 for a particular resource ? > This'd at least let me debug the problem a little more. Look in the apache error log. If there is nothing there, then the problem is almost certainly with your filesystem permissions. Check the directory in question and all parent directories to make sure they have at least search permissions (chmod +x) for the apache user. 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