[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Option Indexes Harry Putnam wrote: I seem to recall some trick stuff done with .htaccess or the like that would cause apache to be able to display any files appearing in a directory when someone hit www.myhost.org/somedir Anyone here know how that is done? Thanks, but I'm not getting how its done. Consulting the apache manual online I ended up thinking something like this should work in /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf. The plus sign is supposed to mean it will merge onto other directory entries. Directory /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography Options +Indexes /Directory There is another Directory entry in that stock file right above where I inserted mine that looks like: Directory / Options -All -Multiviews AllowOverride None IfModule mod_access.c Order deny,allow Deny from all /IfModule /Directory I thought maybe the minus sign on All would mean it was ruled out for all options, so changed it to +. It didn't work either way after `/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' The error is: You don't have permission to access /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ on this server. However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
Make sure that your httpd/apache user has permissions to /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ . Michael Cox -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 12:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Option Indexes Harry Putnam wrote: I seem to recall some trick stuff done with .htaccess or the like that would cause apache to be able to display any files appearing in a directory when someone hit www.myhost.org/somedir Anyone here know how that is done? Thanks, but I'm not getting how its done. Consulting the apache manual online I ended up thinking something like this should work in /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf. The plus sign is supposed to mean it will merge onto other directory entries. Directory /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography Options +Indexes /Directory There is another Directory entry in that stock file right above where I inserted mine that looks like: Directory / Options -All -Multiviews AllowOverride None IfModule mod_access.c Order deny,allow Deny from all /IfModule /Directory I thought maybe the minus sign on All would mean it was ruled out for all options, so changed it to +. It didn't work either way after `/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' The error is: You don't have permission to access /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ on this server. However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
On 10/4/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't have permission to access /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ on this server. However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) Are you sure that it has execute permissions for everyone? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 17:23, Michael Cox wrote: You don't have permission to access /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ on this server. However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) Put the All back as it was, and add an IfModule mod_access.c section to allow from all. The / Directory definition is preventing apache from accessing anything, later Directory definitions allow it access to specific directories. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
On 10/4/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like this: reader ls -ld /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hpweb/\ TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ drwxrwxrwx 9 reader users 392 Oct 4 11:15 \ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ Should it be something else? Well its probably further up the tree. Check the perms for TrainingVids and hpweb. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 04 October 2005 17:23, Michael Cox wrote: You don't have permission to access /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ on this server. However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) Put the All back as it was, and add an IfModule mod_access.c section to allow from all. The / Directory definition is preventing apache from accessing anything, later Directory definitions allow it access to specific directories. I'm guessing you mean that besides fixing +All back to -All in the stock Directory entry I am to add that IfModule to the new Directory entry I've posted like this: Directory /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography Options +Indexes IfModule mod_access.c Order deny,allow Allow from all /IfModule /Directory Doing it like that has changed nothing after a restart. I still get the forbidden error: You don't have permission to access /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography/ on this server -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
Michael Crute mcrute at gmail.com writes: However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) Are you sure that it has execute permissions for everyone? Um, here's a question. Does the 'apache' entry in /etc/group have anything to do with these permissions, in this circumstance? Where can I read more about how the /etc/group entry affects who can do what with apache2? Is there another file that gives greater granularity of control over who can do what to an apache2 server? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
On 10/4/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute mcrute at gmail.com writes: However that directory has the same permissions as all others. (my user) Are you sure that it has execute permissions for everyone? Um, here's a question. Does the 'apache' entry in /etc/group have anything to do with these permissions, in this circumstance? Where can I read more about how the /etc/group entry affects who can do what with apache2? Is there another file that gives greater granularity of control over who can do what to an apache2 server? The Apache process run as user apache(2?) and group apache so it will only have access to directories owned by that user or group and who have the appropriate permissions. The way my server is setup is that the user who owns the vhost owns all the folders for that vhost then the apache group also owns those folders and all files and folders have 751 permissions. It looks something like: var L www L vhost1 -- userb/apache (751) L vhost 2 -- usera/apache (751) L cgi-bin -- usera/apache (751) L htdocs -- usera/apache (751) | L folder 1 -- usera/apache (751) | L folder 2 -- usera/apache (751) | L file 1 -- usera/apache (751) L auth -- usera/apache (751) Hopefully that explains what you are looking for, otherwise check out the docs at httpd.apache.org for the rest of the story. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: var L www L vhost1 -- userb/apache (751) L vhost 2 -- usera/apache (751) L cgi-bin -- usera/apache (751) L htdocs -- usera/apache (751) | L folder 1 -- usera/apache (751) | L folder 2 -- usera/apache (751) | L file 1 -- usera/apache (751) L auth -- usera/apache (751) This may be my problem. I don't have anything owned by apache. Yet my webpages work ok. Its just getting the directory listing machinery to work that fails. All www/localhost/htdocs/hpweb is chowned reader:users (my user). I don't recall having to chown things over to apache in the past to get this to work. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Option Indexes Harry Putnam wrote: I seem to recall some trick stuff done with .htaccess or the like that would cause apache to be able to display any files appearing in a directory when someone hit www.myhost.org/somedir Anyone here know how that is done? Thanks, but I'm not getting how its done. Consulting the apache manual online I ended up thinking something like this should work in /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf. The plus sign is supposed to mean it will merge onto other directory entries. Directory /hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography Options +Indexes /Directory Posting on the apache list got me an answer that seems to have solved this. It turns out that `Directory' refers to filesystem directories not webroot. I took the / in the original Directory entry to be a refernce /var/www/localhost/htdocs not to actual / (root) of fs. So adding the rest of the path: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography Makes it work. The whole entry now looks like: Directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hpweb Options +All IfModule mod_access.c Order deny,allow Allow from all /IfModule /Directory I wanted All options turned on (which includes Indexes) since this server only sees requests from local home lan. Also I noticed that just including the parent dir is enough. That is, just `[...]/hpweb' not hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT apache Q] How to make apache display files in specific directories
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also I noticed that just including the parent dir is enough. That is, just `[...]/hpweb' not hpweb/TrainingVids/DigitalPhotography Slight correction here... The only reason above worked was because I had edited -All to +All in main `Directory' entry. Once the main directory entry was set to block all directories as intended it is then necessary to specify exactly which dir at what depth you want to change. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
