Re: {bb} Forbidden

[Jordan Mendler <jmendler@ucla.edu>]

I had the same problem with apache and it turned out to be related to
SELinux. My httpd.conf was setup right (although that is definitely the
first place to check), but at the end of the day it was a matter of
disabling SELinux. This was with Red Hat AS4 on an x86 platform. If you
have trouble disabiling SELinux, let me know and I can tell you exactly
how I did it. At work I have the exact steps and commands I used
documented somewhere.

Jordan

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:30 +0930, Stephen.Fischer@nt.gov.au wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> It sounds more like an apache configuration issue than anything else, but if you
> really want to use the symbolic links, you probably need to add the following
> directive to the appropriate place in your httpd.conf file:
>       Options +FollowSymLinks
> Now run:
>       # ln -s /home/bb/bb1.9i-btf/www /var/www/html/bb
> 
> Instead, you could define an alias - ours is something like:
> 
>     Alias /bb "/home/bb/bb1.9i-btf/www"
>     <Directory /home/bb/bb1.9i-btf/www>
>         Options None
>         AllowOverride None
>         Order allow,deny
>         Allow from all
>     </Directory>
> 
> Either way should make the page visible at http://<server>/bb.
> 
> The pages need to be readable by the owner of the Apache process.  I've just
> made the directory and all files in it world-readable.
> 
> Stephen
> 
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> Can anyone help me with this problem?  I have read the archives and Forbidden
> problems in the documentation with out finding an answer.  I am running RedHat
> ES ver4 with Apache.  My Apache process is owned by user and group apache.  Big
> Brother is owned by user bb.  I have tried everything I can think of such as
> changing the user and group to several different combinations of bb, apache even
> root.  I have chown’d the files all the way to 777.  I have installed bb several
> times making apache the owner and also installed making bb the owner.  I have
> set the umask to 022 (which is the default on my system) in the runbb.sh script.
> The only time I have been able to successfully view the bb web page is when I
> create a new folder and copy the bb/www files in to the new directory.  This
> leads me to believe it is some sort of rights issue.  When bb updates the files
> I go right back to forbidden.  Apache is working as I already am serving pages
> on the server.  I have also setup bb in a couple of ways.  I currently have the
> www directory located in my document root /var/www/html/www with a symbolic link
> in the home/bb directory to the www folder.
> 
> Sincerely;
> Stumped, stuck and confused
> 
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