no, there are no 403 in the access log. the two lines I quoted (one for error_log, one for access_log) is all that is logged for an access to the scriptaliased location. there is no indication at the client that something may be wrong, the client sees the expected result. access_log: 127.0.0.1 - - [10/Jan/2008:12:20:18 -0700] "GET /testme/foo HTTP/1.1" 200 29 error_log: [Thu Jan 10 12:20:18 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/foo note also that GET /testme/foo gives error related to <SERVERROOT>/htdocs/foo even though there is no such file and no such access testme.pl is a simple hello script > cat cgi-bin/testme.pl #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n"; print "<html> <h1>hello</h1></html>\n"; We have verified this problem on apache 2.0.61, and 2.2.6 on various linux machines and more or less exhaustively customized apache installations. I boiled it down to the simple example in the original post, which should be easily reproducible for anyone willing to look at it. The error appears to be harmless but for clogging the log and wasting cycles. T. On Jan 11, 2008 7:50 AM, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 12:48 AM, t s <keinbiervorvier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why is this error_log entry generated for each request to the script > > defined in ScriptAlias? > > What does the access log say? There ought to be requests with status > code 403 somewhere in there. > > Krist > > -- > krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx > krist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland > -- > A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. > Q: What's wrong with top-posting? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What's the biggest scourge on plain text email discussions? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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