On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 16:53 +0100, Norman Khine wrote: > Hi, > > > Eric Covener wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Norman Khine <norman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> [Sat Jan 24 18:46:57 2009] [error] [client 86.219.32.244] client denied by > >> server configuration: /usr/htdocs > > > > You don't have a <Directory /usr/htdocs> that allows you to serve > > static files out of the filesystem. If this is a new DocumentRoot you > > added, copy the <Directory> stanza from your original DocumentRoot, or > > see the default conf. > > > > minimally: > > <Directory /usr/htdocs> > > order allow,deny > > allow from all > > </directory> > > > > I have this in my vhost entry: > > <Directory "/var/www/localhost/htdocs"> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > > where the "/var/www/localhost/htdocs" is the root of the apache install > files i.e. > > http://my.ip/robots.txt - works > > http://mysite-before-rewrite/robots.txt - gets a 403 error > > Should I add the /usr/htdocs folder? > > I just tried to sym link it, and got this error: > > [Sat Jan 24 19:22:04 2009] [error] [client 86.219.32.244] client denied > by server configuration: /usr/htdocs/robots.txt > [Sat Jan 24 19:22:07 2009] [error] [client 86.219.32.244] client denied > by server configuration: /usr/htdocs/robots.txt > The error tells you what is wrong: the document root in this vhost is set to /usr/htdocs (evident from the error message). You have allowed access to paths beginning with /var/www/localhost/htdocs , and apache does not care that they are 'really' the same place - the paths differ, and so there is no access. > # ls -al /usr > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 24 19:21 htdocs -> > /var/www/localhost/htdocs --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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