Alias issues in Apache 2.0

[Trevor "TeC" Christian]

Richard Crawford wrote:

>I'm missing something fundamental in how Apache works, I think.
>
>In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, I have the following Alias declaration:
>
>==========================================================
>
>Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"
>
><Directory "/var/www/icons">
>    Options Indexes MultiViews
>    AllowOverride None
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from All
></Directory>
>
>
>Alias /pictures/ "/var/shared/shared_files/Pictures/"
>
><Directory "/var/shared/shared_files/Pictures">
>    Options Indexes MultiViews
>    AllowOverride None
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from All
></Directory>
>
>==========================================================
>
>Now, the permissions on the two directories, /var/www/icons/ 
>and /var/shared/shared_files/Pictures are identical.  When I browse to 
>http://server/icons/, the files in that directory display as expected.  
>However, when I browse to http://server/pictures/, I get a 403-Forbidden 
>error.  I've messed with file permissions and with the access elements of the 
>Alias directive, but the permissions on the two directories are identical.  
>I've looked through the documentation of the Alias module at 
>http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html, but I can't find 
>anything that I'm missing.
>
>I have other aliases -- notably, webmail -- which point to other directories 
>outside of the server document root, so that can't be it.
>
>Any ideas, anyone?  This is driving me batty.
>
>  
>
This may be an SELinux related issue.  It was in my similar experience.

Is SELinux enabled on ur system?  Also check the /var/log/messages to 
see if there are any avc error messages.

If so, use ls -Z to see the context properties of a folder that works 
and use chcon to change that of the folders that don't work

Hopefully that should help...

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