403 Forbidden

[Edwin Humphries]

Alexander,

Thanks - I commented out the content of welcome.conf, and suddenly 
eveything works. May not be the "right" solution - it doesn't reverse 
whatever it was I changed (which certaly wasn't the welcome.conf 
file) but it works, so I'm OK.

On 18 May 2004 at 12:06, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Di, den 18.05.2004 schrieb Edwin Humphries um 09:57:
> 
> > We have a Fedora web server hosting 3 domains: 
www.ironstone.com.au,
> > www.e-quality.com.au, www.exportersnetwork.org.au. Used to work
> > fine, but now:
> 
> Then you did change something.
> 
> > Opening a browser to any of these sites just brings up the Fedora
> > Core Test Page. Accessing it from the localhost via lynx shows a 
403
> > Forbidden display, then skips to the Fedora Core Test Page.
> 
> If you check /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf you will see that it is
> exactly the default behaviour if you have no indexing page in the
> documents root.
> 
> > Loading the URL with the directory in which the site is loads the
> > site correctly (eg, 
http://www.exportersnetwork.org.au/exportnet/).
> 
> Be sure what you want the DocumentRoot to be and set it correctly. 
Of
> course use an index page too which will be then presented by 
default.
> 
> > The apache error log shows lots of "Directory index forbidden by
> > Rule: /var/www/html/" with some lines giving a "referer" URL.
> > 
> > How do I get these websites working again?
> 
> Check your Apache2 configuration files and the content of the
> directories holding the webpage content.
> 
> > Edwin Humphries,
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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Edwin Humphries,
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
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