1337 Webmaster I am not (apache/webmin question)

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-11 07:33pm

Hi there, I've just managed to get apache running, I changed the default virtual server's document root to /home/mark/http/ to make it easier to update. I managed to get apache running and stuck an index.html in the directory but http://localhost gives me a forbiddon message. I've also got webmin installed.

How do I fix this? I assume there's a permissions thing somewhere along the line that I need to fix.

[edit]

The actual message is "You don't have permission to access / on this server."

I have absolutely no idea why it is trying to access /.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-11 07:38pm

/ refers to /home/mark/http in this case. Anyway, you need to do:

chmod o+rx /home/mark/http and on all other directories you might add
chmod o+r /home/mark/http/index.html and on all other files you might add

For convenience, you may set the umask to 002 if you are the only user, so from now on you do not have to do the above. Try 'echo "umask 002" >> ~/.profile'

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-11 08:17pm

Nope, neither of those seemed to do it. Is there a guide on setting up apache through webmin?

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2004-08-11 10:50pm

Try:

chmod a+x /home /home/mark

In addition to these, which you've basically already attempted:

chmod a+rx /home/mark/http
chmod a+r /home/mark/http/*

That should fix it if there's a problem with /home and /home/mark denying the execute (x) right on subdirectories.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-12 07:55am

Nope, didn't fix the problem either. I'm beginning to wonder if it would be easier just to use /var/www/html

Should I be changing the way apache is called, or is there some config file somewhere that needs to be told to allow permission to other places?

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2004-08-12 11:53am

Hmm.. I guess we'd need more information on your setup. What are the current permissions on each directory and the files in the html directory?

What I do is use the default /var/www/html, but have a link to /var/www in my home directory. I just type cd www/html and I'm effectively in /var/www/html.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-12 04:47pm

the permissions are all wide open for those directories and files. Not to worry anyway, var/www is just as good a place as any.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-12 06:10pm

Email me the contents of your /etc/httpd or /etc/apache2 or something similar at jhnphm at yahoo.com

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-12 07:40pm

Pu-239 wrote:Email me the contents of your /etc/httpd or /etc/apache2 or something similar at jhnphm at yahoo.com

Done

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-12 07:48pm

Spyder wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:Email me the contents of your /etc/httpd or /etc/apache2 or something similar at jhnphm at yahoo.com
Done

I don't think I got the attachment...

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-12 08:29pm

Pu-239 wrote:
I don't think I got the attachment...

Do'H!

Ok, here we go.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-12 11:02pm

Still waiting for it...

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-12 11:09pm

Ok, third time's a charm.

And if that doesn't work

http://spyderizer.no-ip.com/httpd.zip

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-12 11:40pm

In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, try replacing:

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<Directory "/home/mark/http">
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html

with

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<Directory "/home/mark/http">
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
        DirectoryIndex index.php index.cgi index.pl index.html index.xhtml
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /home/mark/http

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-13 12:16am

Success! Thank you.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-08-13 01:35am

I have to thank you as well, being I'm setting up a Linux server 'n all right now.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-29 05:31am

God DAMN IT.

So, what do I need to add to it to make subdirectories work?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-30 12:01am

Spyder wrote:God DAMN IT.

So, what do I need to add to it to make subdirectories work?

Detail (error message) and post config files again.

BTW you should tarball your stuff, not zip it.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-30 01:36pm

Well do you need help or not? I see you posting in STGOD threads but ignoring this one. I can't sit here and hit refresh every hour forever...

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-30 04:17pm

Sorry, sorry.

Same error as before "forbiddon". Here's httpd.conf:

### Main Configuration Section
### You really shouldn't change these settings unless you're a guru
###
ServerType standalone
ServerRoot /etc/httpd
#ServerName localhost
#LockFile /etc/httpd/httpd.lock
PidFile /var/run/httpd.pid
ScoreBoardFile /etc/httpd/httpd.scoreboard
ErrorLog logs/error_log
LogLevel warn
ResourceConfig /dev/null
AccessConfig /dev/null

### Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support
###
###
#LoadModule mmap_static_module modules/mod_mmap_static.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule config_log_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule agent_log_module modules/mod_log_agent.so
LoadModule referer_log_module modules/mod_log_referer.so
#LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so
LoadModule includes_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so
LoadModule imap_module modules/mod_imap.so
LoadModule action_module modules/mod_actions.so
#LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/libproxy.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so
LoadModule auth_module modules/mod_auth.so
LoadModule anon_auth_module modules/mod_auth_anon.so
#LoadModule dbm_auth_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so
#LoadModule db_auth_module modules/mod_auth_db.so
LoadModule digest_module modules/mod_digest.so
#LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/mod_cern_meta.so
LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
#LoadModule example_module modules/mod_example.so
#LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
<IfDefine HAVE_PHP4>
LoadModule php4_module extramodules/libphp4.so
</IfDefine>
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so

# Reconstruction of the complete module list from all available modules
# (static and shared ones) to achieve correct module execution order.
# [WHENEVER YOU CHANGE THE LOADMODULE SECTION ABOVE UPDATE THIS, TOO]
ClearModuleList
#AddModule mod_mmap_static.c
AddModule mod_env.c
AddModule mod_log_config.c
AddModule mod_log_agent.c
AddModule mod_log_referer.c
#AddModule mod_mime_magic.c
AddModule mod_mime.c
AddModule mod_negotiation.c
AddModule mod_status.c
AddModule mod_info.c
AddModule mod_include.c
AddModule mod_autoindex.c
AddModule mod_dir.c
AddModule mod_cgi.c
AddModule mod_asis.c
AddModule mod_imap.c
AddModule mod_actions.c
#AddModule mod_speling.c
AddModule mod_userdir.c
AddModule mod_proxy.c
AddModule mod_alias.c
AddModule mod_rewrite.c
AddModule mod_access.c
AddModule mod_auth.c
AddModule mod_auth_anon.c
#AddModule mod_auth_dbm.c
#AddModule mod_auth_db.c
AddModule mod_digest.c
#AddModule mod_cern_meta.c
AddModule mod_expires.c
AddModule mod_headers.c
AddModule mod_usertrack.c
#AddModule mod_example.c
#AddModule mod_unique_id.c
AddModule mod_so.c
AddModule mod_setenvif.c
<IfDefine HAVE_PHP4>
AddModule mod_php4.c
</IfDefine>
AddModule mod_vhost_alias.c

###
### Global Configuration
###
# We now support multiple apache configurations on the same server. In
# common.conf, we put all directives that are common to all implementations
# (httpd, httpd-perl, etc.)
Include conf/commonhttpd.conf

###
### IP Address/Port and Proxied configuration section
###
# The APACHEPROXIED setting can be set in /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd if you
# are using a proxy or accelerator, like the Apache-SGI or khttpd, so that
# the fast web server serves static content while Apache handles the
# cgi or php files

#BindAddress *
<IfDefine APACHEPROXIED>
Port 8080
Listen 8080
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine !APACHEPROXIED>
Port 80
Listen 80
</IfDefine>

# Likewise, we can set apache as the server by default and send perl
# requests via ProxyPass to apache-mod_perl. It increases performance
# since the perl interpreter is only used for perl and the standard apache
# does all the html and image files, with a smaller footprint.
#
# If you install apache and apache-mod_perl, this is the default config.
# If you don't want two web servers to use perl, uninstall apache, and
# apache-mod_perl will not be proxied.

<IfDefine PERLPROXIED>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^proxy:.* - [F]
RewriteRule ^(.*\/perl\/.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}:8200$1 [P]
RewriteRule ^(.*\/cgi-perl\/.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}:8200$1 [P]
</IfDefine>

###
### Log configuration Section
###

#Single logfile with access, agent and referer information
#This is the default, if vlogs are not defined for the main server
CustomLog logs/access_log combined env=!VLOG
#If VLOG is defined in conf/vhosts/Vhost.conf, we use this entry
CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/advxsplitlogfile" vhost env=VLOG

###
### Virtual Hosts
###
# We include different templates for Virtual Hosting. Have a look in the
# vhosts directory and modify to suit your needs.
Include conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf
#Include conf/vhosts/DynamicVhosts.conf
#Include conf/vhosts/VirtualHomePages.conf

###
### Performance settings Section
###
#
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
#
Timeout 300

#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.
#
KeepAlive On

#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

#
# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the
# same client on the same connection.
#
KeepAliveTimeout 15

#
# Server-pool size regulation. Rather than making you guess how many
# server processes you need, Apache dynamically adapts to the load it
# sees --- that is, it tries to maintain enough server processes to
# handle the current load, plus a few spare servers to handle transient
# load spikes (e.g., multiple simultaneous requests from a single
# Netscape browser).
#
# It does this by periodically checking how many servers are waiting
# for a request. If there are fewer than MinSpareServers, it creates
# a new spare. If there are more than MaxSpareServers, some of the
# spares die off. The default values are probably OK for most sites.
#
MinSpareServers 4
MaxSpareServers 10

#
# Number of servers to start initially --- should be a reasonable ballpark
# figure.
#
StartServers 4

#
# Limit on total number of servers running, i.e., limit on the number
# of clients who can simultaneously connect --- if this limit is ever
# reached, clients will be LOCKED OUT, so it should NOT BE SET TOO LOW.
# It is intended mainly as a brake to keep a runaway server from taking
# the system with it as it spirals down...
#
MaxClients 150

#
# MaxRequestsPerChild: the number of requests each child process is
# allowed to process before the child dies. The child will exit so
# as to avoid problems after prolonged use when Apache (and maybe the
# libraries it uses) leak memory or other resources. On most systems, this
# isn't really needed, but a few (such as Solaris) do have notable leaks
# in the libraries. For these platforms, set to something like 10000
# or so; a setting of 0 means unlimited.
#
# NOTE: This value does not include keepalive requests after the initial
# request per connection. For example, if a child process handles
# an initial request and 10 subsequent "keptalive" requests, it
# would only count as 1 request towards this limit.
#
MaxRequestsPerChild 500

Include conf/addon-modules/php.conf
<Directory "/home/mark/html">
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.php index.cgi index.pl index.html index.xhtml
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /home/mark/html

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-30 08:14pm

Have you checked the permissions on subdirectories? Anyway if that doesn't work, try editing-

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<Directory "/home/mark/html">
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.php index.cgi index.pl index.html index.xhtml
</Directory>

and moving

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DirectoryIndex index.php index.cgi index.pl index.html index.xhtml

outside the <directory> tags.

If that doesn't work, copy the contents of the <directory> tags and edit it for the full path of your subdirectory.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-09-01 05:48am

Pu-239 wrote:Have you checked the permissions on subdirectories? Anyway if that doesn't work, try editing-
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<Directory "/home/mark/html">
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.php index.cgi index.pl index.html index.xhtml
</Directory> 
and moving
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DirectoryIndex index.php index.cgi index.pl index.html index.xhtml
outside the <directory> tags.

If that doesn't work, copy the contents of the <directory> tags and edit it for the full path of your subdirectory.

Well? Are you going to read your own thread or not. I see you posting in a STGOD thread but ignoring this one AGAIN at 4:03EST.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-09-01 06:16am

Pu-239 wrote:
Well? Are you going to read your own thread or not. I see you posting in a STGOD thread but ignoring this one AGAIN at 4:03EST.

I'm having some other problems with it. I'll respond when all is sorted. I appreciate your help.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-09-01 09:22pm

Spyder wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:
Well? Are you going to read your own thread or not. I see you posting in a STGOD thread but ignoring this one AGAIN at 4:03EST.
I'm having some other problems with it. I'll respond when all is sorted. I appreciate your help.

Ok, email me at jhnphm at gmail dot com