Re: os-linux/4014: User directories not accessible (gets 403 errormessages)

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

The following reply was made to PR os-linux/4014; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: Darren Larson <da...@byu.edu>
Cc: Apache bugs database <ap...@apache.org>
Subject: Re: os-linux/4014: User directories not accessible (gets 403
 errormessages)
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 23:11:28 -0800 (PST)

 As I said before, your home directory probably isn't world readable.
 
 Not the directories under it, the directory itself.  All directories in
 the path of the file being accessed, up to and including the directory it
 is in, have to be readable by the user Apache is runnng as, which normally
 means world readable.
 
 On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Darren Larson wrote:
 
 > Sorry if you needed more info.
 > 
 > My www directory in my home dir is set to be world readable and
 > executable. 
 > 
 > I do not have this problem running Apache 1.3.4 on OpenBSD 2.3, or
 > TurboLinux 1.2 kernel 2.2.2 - just RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.1 or 2.2.2
 > 
 > Also, the error log doesn't show anything but the web server starting up
 > or shutting down.
 > 
 > [dklarson@stealth logs]$ more error_log
 > httpd: [Sat Mar  6 23:29:26 1999] [notice] Apache/1.3.4 (Unix)
 > configured -- resuming normal operations
 > 
 > The access log does show the HTTP 403 errors though:
 > 
 > [dklarson@stealth logs]$ more access_log
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:29:38 -0700] "GET /~dklarson/ HTTP/1.0" 403
 > 282
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:30:42 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1622
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:30:42 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0"
 > 200 2326
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:30:46 -0700] "GET /manual/index.html
 > HTTP/1.0" 200 2287
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:30:46 -0700] "GET /manual/images/sub.gif
 > HTTP/1.0" 200 6083
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:30:46 -0700] "GET /manual/images/index.gif
 > HTTP/1.0" 200 1540
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:30:51 -0700] "GET /manual/install.html
 > HTTP/1.0" 200 10455
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:34:13 -0700] "GET /~dklarson/ HTTP/1.0" 403
 > 282
 > 10.1.1.1 - - [06/Mar/1999:23:34:34 -0700] "GET /~dklarson/ HTTP/1.0" 403
 > 282
 > 
 > Here is the uname -a from my system:
 > 
 > Linux stealth.blue.house 2.2.1 #1 Sat Feb 27 16:45:46 MST 1999 i586
 > unknown
 > 
 > 
 > Here's an ls of my home and www directory:
 > 
 > [dklarson@stealth dklarson]$ ls -l
 > total 7
 > drwxr-xr-x   2 dklarson dklarson     2048 Feb 14 21:16 apple2
 > drwxr-xr-x   4 dklarson dklarson     1024 Mar  3 01:46 archive
 > drwxrwxr-x  18 dklarson dklarson     1024 Feb 17 01:31 docs
 > drwxr-xr-x   4 dklarson dklarson     1024 Feb 14 23:41 images
 > drwx------   2 dklarson dklarson     1024 Feb 22 09:23 mail
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 dklarson dklarson     1024 Mar  6 22:01 www
 > [dklarson@stealth dklarson]$ ls -l www
 > total 2
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 dklarson dklarson     1622 Mar  6 22:01 index.html
 > [dklarson@stealth dklarson]$
 > 
 > 
 > (I have the httpd.conf file UserDir set to www instead of public_html)
 > 
 > 
 > Any ideas why I'd have these errors on this particular version of Linux
 > but not OpenBSD or non-Redhat Linux?
 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
 > 
 > marc@apache.org wrote:
 > > 
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 > > Synopsis: User directories not accessible (gets 403 error messages)
 > > 
 > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
 > > State-Changed-By: marc
 > > State-Changed-When: Sat Mar  6 22:33:03 PST 1999
 > > State-Changed-Why:
 > > This is almost certainly due to an incorrect Apache
 > > configuration (eg. Directory settings) or to file permissions
 > > (eg. the home directory isn't world readable)
 > > 
 > > Unfortunately, since you didn't do little things like include
 > > any info from the error log or say there is none, I can't say
 > > much more.
 > > 
 > > This is almost certainly nothing related to a bug in Apache.
 >