Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 08 June 2012 18:19:10 Paul Hartman wrote:

> What version are you on? Are both servers running the same version?

The remote server is 2.2.20 and I'm on 2.2.22-r1

> See here for the upgrade guide:
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html

Useful for later, when I need to - thanks.

> The most confusing/frustrating thing with Apache and trying to Google
> for information is that the configuration changes so much from one
> version to another, and often times the article doesn't mention which
> specific version they are talking about (I still encounter a lot of
> tutorials from Apache 1.x). There are also differences depending on
> whether you're using virtual hosts or not, chroots, distro-specific
> stuff like webapp-config.

No virtual hosts, chroots or any complicating factor that I can think 
of. Webapp-config is installed here but I haven't used it.

When I rsync'd my site to /var/www/localhost/htdocs on the local server, 
Apache wouldn't display any images, saying that I didn't have 
permission. All files had the same ownership so something must be awry in 
the server config. So I moved the site from there to ~/public_html where 
it works properly apart from the included file I mentioned.

On second thoughts, I see the .htaccess file, which was missing from the 
local server, has a rewrite rule referring to images. Does that explain 
this problem?

> If you want help with the specific error I would suggest posting the
> contents of the .htaccess file and which version of Apache you're
> using.

Right, thanks! Sorry about the word-wrap.

$ cat .htaccess
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://tideswellmvc.co.uk/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://tideswellmvc.co.uk$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.tideswellmvc.co.uk/.*$      
[NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.tideswellmvc.co.uk$      [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

Options +Includes
$

-- 
Rgds
Peter