Forbidden access to server

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Can you post the relevant section of your Apache configuration file?

What might help (which has caught me out a number of times before) is if 
you've got the default Apache config, there's a directive of:

<Directory />
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
</Directory>

This denies Apache access to all local file-system folders, so you also 
need to add:

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
                Options ExecCGI
                AllowOverride AuthConfig
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
</Directory>

This tells Apache that for the folder /usr/local/nagios/sbin, allow all 
access from anyone ("allow from all") (over-riding the default deny 
all), allow the execution of CGIs, and allow configuring authentication 
in a .htaccess file this folder.

Try that.

Andy.

Sam Fraser wrote:
> Do you have any suggestions on how I can get round the problem then?
>  
> Sam Fraser
> Reading
> UK
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org>
> To: Nagios Users mailinglist <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Monday, 11 December, 2006 5:55:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Forbidden access to server
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Sam Fraser wrote:
>
> > For some reason my webserver can't get access to the nagios html 
> files.  I've given 777 access to all the files in /usr/local/nagios/* 
> and I've run the web server as the owner of these files, but to no 
> avail, any ideas?
>
> Setting access right like this is almost similar to leaving the key under
> the garbage bin. Anyone can find it and walk in.
>
> Hugo.
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