I think I must have some problem in my configuration file. When I try to go to I get page 403 forbidden. I get this error in my error_log
"[Wed Jan 22 08:29:19 2003] [error] [client 10.10.1.10] client denied by serverconfiguration: /var/
Here is my commonhttpd.conf file
any help I could get on this would be great
##################################
# MetaDir: specifies the name of the directory in which Apache can find
# meta information files. These files contain additional HTTP headers
# to include when sending the document
#
#MetaDir .web
#
# MetaSuffix: specifies the file name suffix for the file containing the
# meta information.
#
#MetaSuffix .meta
#
# Customizable error response (Apache style)
# these come in three flavors
#
# 1) plain text
#ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo.
# n.b. the single leading ("
marks it as text, it does not get output
#
# 2) local redirects
#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
# to redirect to local URL /missing.html
#ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl
# N.B.: You can redirect to a script or a document using server-side-includes.
#
# 3) external redirects
#ErrorDocument 402 # N.B.: Many of the environment variables associated with the original
# request will *not* be available to such a script.
<Location /manual>
Options Multiviews
ErrorDocument 404 "The document you requested has not been installed on your sys
tem. Please install the apache-manual package.
</Location>
#
# Customize behaviour based on the browser
#
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
#
# The following directives modify normal HTTP response behavior.
# The first directive disables keepalive for Netscape 2.x and browsers that
# spoof it. There are known problems with these browser implementations.
# The second directive is for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0b2
# which has a broken HTTP/1.1 implementation and does not properly
# support keepalive when it is used on 301 or 302 (redirect) responses.
#
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
#
# The following directive disables HTTP/1.1 responses to browsers which
# are in violation of the HTTP/1.0 spec by not being able to grok a
# basic 1.1 response.
#
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
</IfModule>
# End of browser customization directives
#
# Allow server status reports, with the URL of # Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable.
#
<IfModule mod_status.c>
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1
#Allow from .your_domain.com
</Location>
#
# ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate "full" status
# information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus
# Off) when the "server-status" handler is called. The default is Off.
#
#ExtendedStatus On
</IfModule>
#
# Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of
# (requires that mod_info.c be loaded).
# Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable.
#
<IfModule mod_info.c>
<Location /server-info>
SetHandler server-info
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from .your_domain.com
</Location>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
<Location /perl-status>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>
</IfModule>
#
# There have been reports of people trying to abuse an old bug from pre-1.1
# days. This bug involved a CGI script distributed as a part of Apache.
# By uncommenting these lines you can redirect these attacks to a logging
# script on phf.apache.org. Or, you can record them yourself, using the script
# support/phf_abuse_log.cgi.
#
#<Location /cgi-bin/phf*>
# Deny from all
# ErrorDocument 403 #</Location>
#
# Proxy Server directives. Uncomment the following lines to
# enable the proxy server:
#
#<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
# ProxyRequests On
# <Directory proxy:*>
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from .your_domain.com
# </Directory>
#
# Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 "Via:" headers.
# ("Full" adds the server version; "Block" removes all outgoing Via: headers
)
# Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block
#
# ProxyVia On
#
# To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines:
# (no cacheing without CacheRoot)
#
# CacheRoot /var/cache/httpd
# CacheSize 5
# CacheGcInterval 4
# CacheMaxExpire 24
# CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1
# CacheDefaultExpire 1
# NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com
#</IfModule>
# End of proxy directives.
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
# DavLockDB /var/lock/DAVLock
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_include.c>
# XBitHack on
</IfModule>
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory /var/
#
# This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes",
# "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews".
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
#
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
AllowOverride All
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/ AllowOverride All
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/ AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>
<Directory /var/ AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
#allow from .your_domain.com
</Directory>
#
# Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
#<Directory /home/*/public_html>
# AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
# Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
# <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
# </Limit>
# <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# </LimitExcept>
#</Directory>
# These settings are pretty flexible, and allow for Frontpage and XSSI
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI -Includes -Indexes
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
<Directory /home/*/public_html/perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache:erlRun
Options -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Directory>
</IfModule>
<Directory /var/ Options -Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/doc>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
#allow from .your_domain.com
</Directory>
<Directory /var/ Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
<Location /index.shtml>
Options +Includes
</Location>
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
PerlModule Apache::Registry
#set Apache::Registry Mode for /perl Alias
<Location /perl/*.pl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Location>
#set Apache:erlRun Mode for /cgi-perl Alias
<Location /cgi-perl/*.pl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache:erlRun
Options -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Location>
</IfModule>
[root@vetty conf]#
"[Wed Jan 22 08:29:19 2003] [error] [client 10.10.1.10] client denied by serverconfiguration: /var/
Here is my commonhttpd.conf file
any help I could get on this would be great
##################################
# MetaDir: specifies the name of the directory in which Apache can find
# meta information files. These files contain additional HTTP headers
# to include when sending the document
#
#MetaDir .web
#
# MetaSuffix: specifies the file name suffix for the file containing the
# meta information.
#
#MetaSuffix .meta
#
# Customizable error response (Apache style)
# these come in three flavors
#
# 1) plain text
#ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo.
# n.b. the single leading ("
marks it as text, it does not get output#
# 2) local redirects
#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
# to redirect to local URL /missing.html
#ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl
# N.B.: You can redirect to a script or a document using server-side-includes.
#
# 3) external redirects
#ErrorDocument 402 # N.B.: Many of the environment variables associated with the original
# request will *not* be available to such a script.
<Location /manual>
Options Multiviews
ErrorDocument 404 "The document you requested has not been installed on your sys
tem. Please install the apache-manual package.
</Location>
#
# Customize behaviour based on the browser
#
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
#
# The following directives modify normal HTTP response behavior.
# The first directive disables keepalive for Netscape 2.x and browsers that
# spoof it. There are known problems with these browser implementations.
# The second directive is for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0b2
# which has a broken HTTP/1.1 implementation and does not properly
# support keepalive when it is used on 301 or 302 (redirect) responses.
#
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
#
# The following directive disables HTTP/1.1 responses to browsers which
# are in violation of the HTTP/1.0 spec by not being able to grok a
# basic 1.1 response.
#
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
</IfModule>
# End of browser customization directives
#
# Allow server status reports, with the URL of # Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable.
#
<IfModule mod_status.c>
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1
#Allow from .your_domain.com
</Location>
#
# ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate "full" status
# information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus
# Off) when the "server-status" handler is called. The default is Off.
#
#ExtendedStatus On
</IfModule>
#
# Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of
# (requires that mod_info.c be loaded).
# Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable.
#
<IfModule mod_info.c>
<Location /server-info>
SetHandler server-info
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from .your_domain.com
</Location>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
<Location /perl-status>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>
</IfModule>
#
# There have been reports of people trying to abuse an old bug from pre-1.1
# days. This bug involved a CGI script distributed as a part of Apache.
# By uncommenting these lines you can redirect these attacks to a logging
# script on phf.apache.org. Or, you can record them yourself, using the script
# support/phf_abuse_log.cgi.
#
#<Location /cgi-bin/phf*>
# Deny from all
# ErrorDocument 403 #</Location>
#
# Proxy Server directives. Uncomment the following lines to
# enable the proxy server:
#
#<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
# ProxyRequests On
# <Directory proxy:*>
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from .your_domain.com
# </Directory>
#
# Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 "Via:" headers.
# ("Full" adds the server version; "Block" removes all outgoing Via: headers
)
# Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block
#
# ProxyVia On
#
# To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines:
# (no cacheing without CacheRoot)
#
# CacheRoot /var/cache/httpd
# CacheSize 5
# CacheGcInterval 4
# CacheMaxExpire 24
# CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1
# CacheDefaultExpire 1
# NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com
#</IfModule>
# End of proxy directives.
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
# DavLockDB /var/lock/DAVLock
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_include.c>
# XBitHack on
</IfModule>
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory /var/
#
# This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes",
# "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews".
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
#
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
AllowOverride All
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/ AllowOverride All
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/ AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>
<Directory /var/ AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
#allow from .your_domain.com
</Directory>
#
# Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
#<Directory /home/*/public_html>
# AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
# Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
# <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
# </Limit>
# <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# </LimitExcept>
#</Directory>
# These settings are pretty flexible, and allow for Frontpage and XSSI
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI -Includes -Indexes
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
<Directory /home/*/public_html/perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache:
erlRunOptions -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Directory>
</IfModule>
<Directory /var/ Options -Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/doc>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
#allow from .your_domain.com
</Directory>
<Directory /var/ Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
<Location /index.shtml>
Options +Includes
</Location>
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
PerlModule Apache::Registry
#set Apache::Registry Mode for /perl Alias
<Location /perl/*.pl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Location>
#set Apache:
erlRun Mode for /cgi-perl Alias<Location /cgi-perl/*.pl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache:
erlRunOptions -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Location>
</IfModule>
[root@vetty conf]#