[plug] help request: installing web server on Debian[Scanned]

[Randal S. Adamson]

Hi Jon,

> 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
>
>
> 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)

These error messages are quite normal for Apache and I wouldn't think
they have any bearing on why you get your 403 message.

May I suggest you take a look at your "Order allow,deny" part and put in
your httpd.conf file and allow from your lan: ie.:

Allow from 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0

As an example

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

you could -> but it would have to be __REAL MAGIC___ :)

Regards,

Randal Adamson