[SL] Re: 403 Forbidden

[Miguel K. O. de L. <mi...@ko...>]

Kevin;

An important first step is to check if this is the only directory where you have this
problem.

A good place to get inspiration to solve problems is in the web server log files. If
you use Red Hat or a similar directory lay-out, you will find them in /var/log/httpd.
A second idea is to double check that the /usr/local/sql-ledger directory really has
read privileges for the user that is running the web server. In my case this is
'nobody' but your case may be different, like 'apache'.

So I have:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     nobody          8 Jan 14 01:29 admin.pl -> login.pl
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     nobody       2876 Jan  1 20:05 login.pl

A final idea may be looking for problems in httpd.conf. Did you put in the line to
include the sql-ledger.conf at the end of the file?

Include /etc/httpd/conf/sql-ledger-httpd.conf

And the conf file itself is:

Alias /contabil/ /opt/sql-ledger/
<Directory /opt/sql-ledger>
  AddHandler cgi-script .pl
  Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymlinks
</Directory>

<Directory /opt/sql-ledger/users>
  Order Deny,Allow
  Deny from All
</Directory>

Note the ExecCGI keyword and the AddHandler. In this example, Sql-Ledger is installed
under /opt. Access in this case would be by http://my.web.server/contabil/login.pl

Miguel

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Kevin <kon...@ya...>
To: sql...@sq...
Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:52:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [SL] 403 Forbidden

> Hi all,
> 
> I am installing sql-ledger, following the directions
> and when I have come to the point at which I point my
> web browser to 'admin.pl' I get a "403 Forbidden You
> don't have permission to access /sql-ledger/admin.pl
> on this server."
> 
> Now, this would seem pretty straight forward...  I
> checked the permissions of files and directories for
> /usr/local/sql-ledger and followed the directions
> making templates and users owned and in the webservers
> group.
> 
> I looked at the docs over and over to make sure I
> didn't miss a step and checked the FAQ.  I could be
> blind or missing something obvious.
> 
> BTW, I write a file called 'index.html' and put it in
> /usr/local/sql-ledger and I get the same error there
> to.  It has to be a permissions problem though I have
> made permissions on everything very lax and I am still
> having problems.
> 
> I am going to leave this alone for a few days and get
> back to it.  Maybe I am just overworked and missing
> something obvious.  If anyone has suggestions as to
> what I might be missing in the meanwhile I would much
> appreciate it.
> 
> Thank you for your support.
> 
> --Kevin
> 
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