On Monday 09 December 2002 05:27 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: This reply was right on, and of great help thanks for your help all in getting me to understand apache better, I now have it up and running, which is the most important part.
I have shared some of the good tips you have provided me hear with the software developer to be included in his documentation and troubleshooting guide. Isnt that what it is all about, making it better, better, best..... Thanks ;-) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:01:12PM -0500 : > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: > > > I have been attempting to install www.sql-ledger.com SQL-Ledger 2.0 on > > > my system running mdk 9.0, however apache is giving me an error 403 > > > when I attempt to acess its web pages located in /usr/local/sql-ledger > > > I followed the instructions and edited httpd.conf ect.... > > Paste the sections you edited/added. > > > 403 is a permissions error. Which user can read the contents of the > > Yes. I'd be willing to bet you need to add the following to > commonhttpd.conf: > > <Directory /usr/local/sql-ledger> > AllowOverride All > Options -MultiViews -Indexes -FollowSymLinks > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > The way apache starts is it: > Blocks all access to the physical file system / > Opens access to the physical file system /var/www/html > Opens access to the physical file system /var/www/perl > Opens access to the physical file system /var/www/cgi-bin > Opens access to the physical file system /var/www/protected-cgi-bin > Opens access to the physical file system /home/*/public_html > Opens access to the physical file system /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin > Opens access to the physical file system /var/www/icons > Opens access to the physical file system /usr/share/doc > > Since you're trying to access files outside of those allowed paths, you > have to specifically allow it. It's done this way because of some past > exploits with the pathnames. Rather than trust that there will never be > another bug within apache that will let you get somewhere you don't > want, you set it up securely out of the box so that apache won't let > itself go somewhere that you don't want it to. > > Blue skies... Todd > > > - -- > Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-1mdk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE99UL+lp7v05cW2woRAlAnAKCGACgV9NfH7/maEpiH5PLq5X/0PgCgqNqW > m108C4dNYpzvo8QMRI1AIbY= > =7LXQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 2:43pm up 2 days, 2:41, 8 users, load average: 2.05, 2.04, 2.02
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