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<DIV>Can access the web server from internal LAN, cannot access it from a
external location.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT
Networks Pty Ltd<BR><A
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<DIV>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR> is trying
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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> ranz@himladeon.com 8:39:10 am 8/07/2004
>>><BR><BR>Hi Jon,<BR><BR>> After installing Apache on a Debian
server and trying to access the<BR>site I<BR>> keep getting a HTTP 403
Forbibben, I haven't added anything special in<BR>> /etc/apache/httpd.conf
other than what I want on and not on<BR>(signatures =<BR>> off)<BR>> The
only file in /var/www is the index.html with the
following<BR>permissions<BR>> -rw-r--r-- 1
root
root 4110 Oct 26 2002
index.html<BR>><BR>><BR>> output of /var/log/apache/error.log<BR>>
<BR>> [Fri Jul 9 06:25:01 2004] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing
graceful<BR>> restart<BR>> [Fri Jul 9 06:25:01 2004] [error] (2)No
such file or directory:<BR>> mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file
/etc/apache/share/magic<BR>> [Fri Jul 9 06:25:01 2004] [notice]
Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian<BR>GNU/Linux<BR>> configured -- resuming normal
operations<BR>> [Fri Jul 9 06:25:01 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism
enabled (wrapper:<BR>> /usr/lib/apache/suexec)<BR>> [Fri Jul 9
06:25:01 2004] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default:<BR>>
sysvsem)<BR><BR>These error messages are quite normal for Apache and I wouldn't
think<BR>they have any bearing on why you get your 403 message.<BR><BR>May I
suggest you take a look at your "Order allow,deny" part and put in<BR>your
httpd.conf file and allow from your lan: ie.:<BR><BR>Allow from
192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0<BR><BR>As an example<BR><BR>> Do I need to
establish a link to the magic file in /etc?<BR><BR>you could -> but it would
have to be __REAL MAGIC___ :)<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Randal
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