I haven't used Apache much, but quite a while ago, I did set up a (trivial)
web page to see how this worked. At the time, I had no real problems. Today,
I tried to access that page and got a 403 error.
Here's what I've tried so far.
1 - I looked for error messages and found the following
in /var/log/httpsd/error_log:
[Sun Jul 31 00:03:56 2005] [error] [client 10.200.1.1] (13)Permission denied:
access to / failed because search permissions are missing on a component of
the path
[Sun Jul 31 00:03:56 2005] [error] [client 10.200.1.1] (13)Permission denied:
access to / failed because search permissions are missing on a component of
the path
[Sun Jul 31 00:03:56 2005] [error] [client 10.200.1.1] (13)Permission denied:
access to /favicon.ico failed because search permissions are missing on a
component of the path
[Sun Jul 31 00:03:56 2005] [error] [client 10.200.1.1] (13)Permission denied:
access to /favicon.ico failed because search permissions are missing on a
component of the path
2 - I then tried apachectl (as root) and got:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# apachectl extendedstatus
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /server-status on this server.
#######################################
#######################################
Apache Server Status for shlomo1.solomon
Server Version: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.31
(Mandrakelinux/4mdk) mod_auth_external/2.1.18 mod_perl/1.29
Server Built: Jul 13 2004 18:34:47
3 - the following was in /var/log/httpsd/error_log:
[Sun Jul 31 00:05:53 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied:
access to /server-status failed because search permissions are missing on a
component of the path
4 - I GOOGLED and learned it's a probably a permission problem.
According to http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2004/04/22/apacheckbk.html:
<quote>
What "search permissions are missing on a component of the path" means is that
somewhere in the directory path leading up to the file in question, there's a
search (x) bit missing from one of the directories. You see, Apache needs to
be able to look at files, the same as any other application does. And so it
needs the search bit (x) set so that it can cd into a directory to get a look
around.
For directories containing the web content, you need the read and execute
permissions to be set. For a directory that Apache will just need to pass
through on the way to a content directory, execute (search) permission is
sufficient.
</quote>
But, as far as I can see, my permissions are set OK.
The page is in the standard location as set up by the Apache installation:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]$ ls -la /var/www/html/index*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1299 Jul 30 21:15 /var/www/html/index.shtml
favicon.ico is in the same location:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]$ ls -la /var/www/html/fav*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1406 Aug 26 2004 /var/www/html/favicon.ico
And here are the permissions of all the directories in the path:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]$ ls -lad /var/www/html
drwxr-xr-x 15 apache apache 720 Jul 31 00:07 /var/www/html/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]$ ls -lad /var/www
drwxr-xr-x 11 apache apache 272 Jan 23 2005 /var/www/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]$ ls -lad /var
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 680 Jan 31 20:09 /var/
Any ideas what's wrong here?
TIA
--
Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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