CentOS - Oct 2005 - apache 403 forbidden problem.

Hi guys,

I'm using Centos 3.5 with Apache-2.0.46. i linke my mrtg from /var/www/mrtg
to /var/www/html/mrtg so i did the command ln -s /var/www/mrtg. it worked
fine last week but when i checked the mrtg today it say 403 forbidden.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /mrtg/ on this server.
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Apache/2.0.46 (CentOS) Server



but when i tried to link the /var/www/mrtg to a different name it worked
fine. i can see the mrtg.


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On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm using Centos 3.5 with Apache-2.0.46. i linke my mrtg from /var/ 
> www/mrtg to /var/www/html/mrtg so i did the command ln -s /var/www/ 
> mrtg. it worked fine last week but when i checked the mrtg today it  
> say 403 forbidden.
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /mrtg/ on this server.
>
> Apache/2.0.46 (CentOS) Server
>
>
>
> but when i tried to link the /var/www/mrtg to a different name it  
> worked fine. i can see the mrtg.
Do you have a mrtg.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.d, and is it  
restricting access?
Tony
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In CentOS 3, look for mrtg.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d. This file
configures /mrtg for localhost access only. Change the 'Allow from' line
to something sensible and it should work. That drove me nuts for a while
until I found it.

Chuck 

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:01 AM
To: CentOS ML
Subject: Re: [CentOS] apache 403 forbidden problem.

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 12:20 +0200, Ralph Angenendt
wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 04:32 +0800, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
> > >         > Forbidden
> > >         > You don't have permission to access /mrtg/ on
this
server.
> > >         
> > 
> > When I had this issue it was because selinux was enabled.  Is that
> > possibly your issue ... what does /etc/sysconfig/selinux say?
> 
> SELinux on CentOS 3.x? Apache 2.0.46 does hint at that - as does the
> first mail by Mark.
> 
> Ralph
You are correct ... I did read that before, but overlooked it.

If using CentOS-3.x and httpd from there then selinux is not available.

If on CentOS-4.x then selinux might be an issue.

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