On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:53 PM, J. Stephens <onlineworkm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> error log says "[Thu Apr 28 13:50:57 2011] [error] [client 98.226.168.246] > client denied by server configuration: /" > my website is at /var/www/testing600.remcycle.net/. Should it be saying > that directory and not the root directory? > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:37 AM, J. Stephens <onlineworkm...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I am getting 403 errors when I add a new vhost. at >> testing601.remcycle.net I get 403, but at >> testing601.remcycle.net/index.html it works. What are the possible causes >> of this 403 error? >> > All it is telling you is the configuration that is being inherited from a config for /. The closest thing I have to Debian Squeeze is Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04). It has this comment in "/etc/apache2/conf.d/security": > # Disable access to the entire file system except for the directories that > # are explicitly allowed later. > # > # This currently breaks the configurations that come with some web > application > # Debian packages. It will be made the default for the release after lenny. > # > #<Directory /> > # AllowOverride None > # Order Deny,Allow > # Deny from all > #</Directory> Since Squeeze is after Lenny, this might mean that a good place to start looking for your problem is wherever you have your <Directory /var/www/ testing600.remcycle.net/> directive. Do you have the mod_info handler enabled? It might be able to help find the offending directive. (Documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_info.html) - Yehuda
