Hmm..do you have a <Directory /> block that's maybe denying it, or lack of one? Do you have a http(s) load balancer on the same machine that's probing apache for availability? That at least would explain the access log entries you quoted. -Tony --------------------------- Manager, IT Operations Format Dynamics, Inc. 303-573-1800x27 abiacco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.formatdynamics.com -----Original Message----- From: James Pifer [mailto:jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:30 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by serverconfiguration: /srv/www/htdocs/ > First, it has nothing to do with the user under which Apache runs. > According to the message above, it is the /client/ that is being denied > by the server. It also says that the client is "calling" /from/ the > address 127.0.0.1, which is the localhost (the Apache machine itself). > So you have something running on your Apache machine, which tries to > access that website on that same machine. > Since it appears constantly, my guess is that is some automatic process, > probably something running to just check the server. Nagios maybe ? > Yes, that's what it seems like, but I can't see anything it could be. I do monitor http from another server which checks for index.html periodically. That is all successful. Only thing I see in the access log is a bunch of: 127.0.0.1 - - [18/Feb/2009:15:26:39 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 1039 127.0.0.1 - - [18/Feb/2009:15:28:26 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 1051 > If you have perl installed on that Suse machine, try the following > command, from a command-line window on the same machine : > lwp-request -m GET -Sed http://localhost > and post here what it answers. I get: # lwp-request -m GET -Sed http://localhost GET http://localhost --> 403 Forbidden Connection: close Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:26:39 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Linux/SUSE) Vary: accept-language,accept-charset Content-Language: en Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Client-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:26:39 GMT Client-Peer: 127.0.0.1:80 Client-Response-Num: 1 Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked Link: <mailto:admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; /="/"; rev="made" Title: Access forbidden! So that basically confirms that localhost is denied. How do I allow access and does it seem safe to allow it? The configuration is: <Directory /srv/www/htdocs/> AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Thanks, James --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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