RE: [users@httpd] Fedora Core 1 - Apache 2.0.47-10 - 403 Forbidde n - mrtg

[Shawn Iverson <sh...@nccsc.k12.in.us>]

> What is the DocumentRoot? How are you attempting to access
> /var/www/mrtg?
> 
> If your docroot is /var/www/html, then you access
> /var/www/html/file.html via URL http://server/file.html 
> therefore it is
> impossible to address a file in /var/www/mrtg since it is not 
> under the
> docroot. 
> 
> If your problem is not some path confusion, as described above, then
> check that you are editing the correct config file, or, that 
> the apache
> that is running is really the one that you are editing (put an obvious
> synatx error in the config and try a restart - it should detect it).
> You'd be suprised how often people waste time editing one config when
> the apache they're running is really a default vendor version 
> reading a
> different file.
> 
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle
> Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. 
> 

DocumentRoot is /var/www/html.  Now I tried moving mrtg into DocumentRoot,
and it didn't work.
I did restart apache after I removed the alias and <Document "..."> settings
when trying this.
(see information below)

I inserted a syntax error and restarted apache.  It failed and pointed to
the error.
So yes, I must be editing the right config (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf),
and only one instance of apache resides on my server.


A

> > 
> > 
> > The /var/log/httpd/error-log has the following error:
> > 
> > client denied by server configuration: /var/www/mrtg
> > 
> > Well, ok, so I tried the following:
> > 
> > I moved /var/www/mrtg to /var/www/html/mrtg and removed the 
> > prior alias and
> > Directory operator and did the following (shouldn't be 
> > necessary, but tried
> > out of desperation):
> > 
> > <Directory "/var/www/html/mrtg">
> > 	Options  Indexes MultiViews
> > 	AllowOverride None
> > 	Order allow,deny		(also tried deny,allow)
> > 	Allow from all
> > </Directory>
> > 
> > Then I did a killall -HUP httpd...still doesn't work.
> > I also tried service httpd restart with no improvement.
> > 
> > Interestingly enough, apache refuses to look anywhere, except 
> > /var/www/mrtg
> > for mrtg, even when no references for mrtg exist in httpd.conf!
> > 
> > Making a symlink from /var/www/html does not work, and 
> > Moving the mrtg folder elsewhere does not work (apache still 
> > thinks mrtg
> > resides in /var/www/mrtg, even when no references to mrtg are 
> > in the config
> > file).
> > 
> > What the heck is going on?  Is there any way around this?  I 
> > read an earlier
> > posting about this same issue on Fedora but did not find a solution:
> > 
> > List: apache-httpd-users <?l=apache-httpd-users&r=1&w=2> 
> Subject: Re:
> > [users@httpd] apache "forbidden" error accessing my mrtg files
> > <?t=106905250700001&r=1&w=2> From: Luis Moreira <lamoreira () 
> > bes ! pt>
> > <?a=101653671600001&r=1&w=2> Date: 2003-11-17 16:13:44
> > <?l=apache-httpd-users&r=1&w=2&b=200311> 
> > 
> > Shawn Iverson
> > Technology Associate
> > New Castle Community School Corporation
> > 765-593-6691
> > shawn@nccsc.k12.in.us
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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