[plug] help request: installing web server on Debian

[Onno Benschop]

First of all: *STOP* sending HTML attachments.

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 10:00, Jon Miller wrote:
> After installing Apache on a Debian server and trying to access the
> site I keep getting a HTTP 403 Forbibben, I haven't added anything
> special in /etc/apache/httpd.conf other than what I want on and not on
> (signatures = off)
> The only file in /var/www is the index.html with the following
> permissions
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4110 Oct 26  2002 index.html

Does ps -A show apache running? (It should)

The 403 Forbidden message should create an entry in both
/var/log/apache/error.log and /var/log/apache/access.log.

Your extract does not show this.

> output of /var/log/apache/error.log
> 
> [Fri Jul  9 06:25:01 2004] [notice] SIGUSR1 received.  Doing graceful restart
> [Fri Jul  9 06:25:01 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic
> [Fri Jul  9 06:25:01 2004] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Fri Jul  9 06:25:01 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache/suexec)
> [Fri Jul  9 06:25:01 2004] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)


> Do I need to establish a link to the magic file in /etc?

No, there is something else broken there, because I don't have that
directory either.


Onno Benschop 

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