Use the PT flag if you rewrite in vhost context and the substitution is a url instead of a filesystem path. Url2file is the default, but when the substance prefix doesn't exist it treats it as url2url. PT forces it
On May 1, 2011 9:52 PM, "J. Stephens" <
onlineworkmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think I found the real issue.
>
> In the vhosts it has
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^
test.remcycle.net [NC]
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /$1
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^
www.test.remcycle.net [NC]
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /$1
>
> After removing this and restarting the website seems to work. I will be doing a little reading on the rewrite engine to find out why this causes the 403 error, but I believe this to be the root cause of the issue.
>
>
>
> On May 1, 2011, at 7:01 PM, Eric Covener wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:13 PM, J. Stephens <
onlineworkmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I know I should add the root directory due to security, but I am getting
>>> this error.
>>> website error.log:
>>>
>>> Thu Mar 24 19:23:05 2011] [error] [client 98.226.168.246] client denied by
>>> server configuration: /
>>>
>>> I guess I need to be asking why it needs access to the root of the computer
>>> and not just the website directory.
>>
>> It doesn't. That's a URL in the error message, not the root of your filesystem.
>>
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