[VuFind-General] 403 error

[Neal, R. <rn...@ri...>]

Good morning,

I am in the process of upgrading Apache 2.2.1 to Apache 2.4.1.  The method I used is to simply rename the apache2 folder and then download and configure/compile httpd-2.4.1 and then rename the folder to apache2.   I then renamed the new httpd.conf file and copied the httpd.conf file in from the Apache 2.2.1.  It did not work.  I could not start apache so upon investigating I found that I needed to download and configure/compile apr and apr-util.   I don' remember exactly but the error was something about User not being found.  I reconfigured apache to use apr and apr-util and the error went away.  I then had to LoadModule unixd.

The end result was that apache does work.  It shows the test page.  PHP does work and it reports properly.

The problem is that I get a 403 Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /vufind on this server error.

The logs have not been helpful.

So... I think the problem is in the httpd.conf file.  Except for the new httpd.conf file, nothing else has changed - I did nothing with the permissions on the Alias /vufind /usr/local/vufind/web/ directories.  I did not change the http-vufind.conf file at all.

For conciseness sake I am only putting the vufind relevant sections from the httpd.conf file below.  If you get time please take a look and let me know if you have any thoughts on what happened.    Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks for your help.

Rick

1.

<IfModule alias_module>
    #
    # Redirect: Allows you to tell clients about documents that used to
    # exist in your server's namespace, but do not anymore. The client
    # will make a new request for the document at its new location.
    # Example:
    # Redirect permanent /foo http://www.example.com/bar

    #
    # Alias: Maps web paths into filesystem paths and is used to
    # access content that does not live under the DocumentRoot.
    # Example:
    # Alias /webpath /full/filesystem/path
    #
    # If you include a trailing / on /webpath then the server will
    # require it to be present in the URL.  You will also likely
    # need to provide a <Directory> section to allow access to
    # the filesystem path.
     Alias /vufind /usr/local/vufind/web/
    #
    # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
    # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
    # documents in the target directory are treated as applications and
    # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the
    # client.  The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias
    # directives as to Alias.
    #
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/"

2.

<Directory "/usr/local/vufind/web/">
    AllowOverride ALL
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>


3.

Include /usr/local/vufind/httpd-vufind.conf