[plug] help request: installing web server on Debian

[Sol Hanna]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 15:42, Jon Miller wrote:
> Doing a ps -A it does show apache running, I still get the server error: 403 Forbidden; access denied; /doc/index on Firefox.  why is it showing /doc/index when it should be /var/www/index.html or just index.html?  Is this a permission issue? 
> I did an apt-get install apache to install apache and made the changes to the Bindaddress *  by removing the # in front of the line and added the name of the domain to the ServerName line and then save the file.  I issued a /etc/init.d/apache restart and tried to access it with a browser and got the message.  I then checked to this with lynx and I get the webpage (I'm expecting) so I feel apache is working.
Sounds like it is, but that Firefox isn't. Have you tried another
browser (apart from Lynx & Firefox)? What domain are you trying to
reach? Out of the box these should work:
http://localhost/index.html
http://127.0.0.1/index.html

This is all assuming the default Debian config for apache and that you
have a file /var/www/index.html. (Also note that /usr/share/doc/ is
often mapped to http://{hostname}/doc/ so you can access your system
documentation via a browser.)

HTH; sol
>   
> It is possible that this may be a firewall issue from the router.  If anyone can think of anything else I need to look into I would appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE
> Director/Sr Systems Consultant
> MMT Networks Pty Ltd
> http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au
> 
> "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
>  is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
> 
> 
> 
> >>> onno at itmaze.com.au 9:13:55 am 9/07/2004 >>>
> 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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Sol Hanna
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