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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with setting up an Apache alias [SOLVED]
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:49:01
Message-Id: 1134863146.9118.12.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with setting up an Apache alias by Michael Sullivan
1 On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 17:40 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > I'm trying to set up aliases to different html directories
3 > under /usr/share/doc. I've run into a snag. My first one if for
4 > syslog-ng. Here's the Apache2 config for it:
5 >
6 > bullet modules.d # cat 01_manuals.conf
7 > Alias /manuals/syslog-ng "/usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html"
8 > <Directory /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html>
9 > Order allow,deny
10 > Allow from all
11 > </Directory>
12 >
13 >
14 > I restarted /etc/init.d/apache2 and poined my web browser to
15 > www.espersunited.com/manuals/syslog-ng. It gave me a 403 Forbidden. I
16 > checked the permissions from /usr all the way down
17 > to /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html and all were 755. The
18 > contents of /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html were 444, but I don't
19 > think that's a problem. I looked at /var/log/apache2/error_log for the
20 > source of the problem and found this:
21 >
22 > [Sat Dec 17 17:32:24 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] Directory index
23 > forbidden by rule: /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html/
24 >
25 >
26 > I thought "Allow from all" meant that anyone could access the directory?
27 > What am I doing wrong?
28
29 Nevermind. I went into /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html and
30 created a symlink called "index.html" and then it worked...
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