[PLUG] Apache Directory Directive
dan at fiddlers-green.info
dan at fiddlers-green.info
Thu Apr 15 14:33:01 UTC 2004
Quoting Bill Barry <barryb at proaxis.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:18:32AM -0700, dan at fiddlers-green.info wrote:
> >
> > I've tried it both ways:
> > <Directory /var/webconfig/htdocs/reports/data>
> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> > Order Allow,Deny
> > # deny from all
> > Allow From 192.168.2
> > </Directory>
> >
> > and,
> >
> > <Directory /var/webconfig/htdocs/reports/data>
> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> > Order Deny,Allow
> > deny from all
> > Allow From 192.168.2
> > </Directory>
> >
> > Both return a 403 when attempting to access a page that needs to read from
> the
> > reports/data directory. The only time it works is if I use Deny,Allow and
> > comment out the "Deny from All", which just means access is open to
> everyone
> > now. Since its the system stats and intrusion data reports on the gateway
> > server, that is probably bad security form.
> >
>
> Well, since it works if you allow everyone access, then the file
> permissions must be right, everything must be right. There are no
> hidden .htaccess files. Have you taken a look at the log
> files. Perhaps you are coming in on a different subnet than
> you think? Are you trying to access it locally and you need to
> add 127.0.0.1 to the Allow From line?
>
> Bill Barry
>
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That was it Bill. The 127.0.0 entry needed to be there.
thanks everyone.
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