Apache and PHP help

Anon

hello...
first of all i'm running virtual hosts in apache and i'm having a problem.. i keep getting 403 forbidden when i try and access any of my files on the server. I'd like to see if php is working on the server but with this 403 error i can't seem to get any pages to show. Below is what is in my apache httpd.conf file for the virtual host section. The thing I am thinking is that i must have the permissions set on the sub-directories set wrong.. however, i have it set to anyone can read the files but only the user has permission to read, write, list etc...

<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>
DocumentRoot /home/username/username.com/htdocs
ServerName USERNAME
ServerAdmin webmaster@username.com
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/username/username.com/cgi-bin/
CustomLog /home/username/username.com/logs/access_log "combined"
</VirtualHost>

thanks,
jay

smarlowe

Try using "tail -f yourerrorloghere" on your error file to see what apache is complaining about. Often that will give you all the info you need to fix the problem.

Also, do you have a listen directive for the IP you're trying to virtual host on?

Anon

fyi i'm totally new to this sysadmin a linux box and apache (i wasn't hired to do this but the responcibality has fallen on me so i'm having to learn all this asap).. with that said.. i did the tail -f (which is really cool command) and here's what i got:

[Wed Aug 15 09:32:32 2001] [error] [client 211.242.144.181] Client sent malformed Host header
[Wed Aug 15 10:11:36 2001] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
[Wed Aug 15 10:11:36 2001] [error] Cannot remove module mod_php4.c: not found in module list
[Wed Aug 15 10:11:37 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 mod_perl/1.24_01 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Aug 15 10:11:37 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Wed Aug 15 10:11:48 2001] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
[Wed Aug 15 10:11:48 2001] [error] Cannot remove module mod_php4.c: not found in module list
[Wed Aug 15 10:11:49 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 mod_perl/1.24_01 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Aug 15 10:11:49 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Wed Aug 15 10:33:47 2001] [error] [client 212.205.138.3] Client sent malformed Host header

any you said something about a "listen directive" what is that?

thanks,
jay

reagent

if you suspect that your virtual hosts aren't set up correctly, you can call:
httpd -S from the command line to verify (i think that's the switch)

check the apache docs for more info on virtual hosts.

you may also want to check to see if Options Indexes is turned on..

smarlowe

It sounds like httpd.conf php setup isn't configured quite right. In your httpd.conf gfile, you should have a loadmodule line and an addmodule line for php, then later on a line that sets the type. In apache, the first two should be set when php is installed with './configure --with-apxs=your/path/to/apache/here/apxs' command, followed by 'make install'.

If it wasn't set during install, you may have had apache installed after php, and all you need do is go to the /usr/local/src/php-4.0.6 or whereever php is install from and type 'make install' and you should be ready to restart apache.

For the listen directive, look here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#listen

Great doc of all the core functions in apache 1.3.

what does 'httpd -t' say? Usually you'll get an error message if there's a config problem or httpd can't find something it needs.

Look here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

for all the apache 1.3 docs.

Look here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/index.html

for info on virtual hosting. Virtual hosting is a complex process, so it's nice to read up the docs on it, otherwise you might wind up with a semi-functional site (i.e. some parts work, some parts don't.)

Good luck.

Anon

Yeah, i was just reading the posts... i have somewhat the same problem. I keep getting a 403 Forbidden as well... when i check my httpd-error.log i get this :

[Sun Dec 9 09:44:31 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Dec 9 09:50:23 2001] [error] [client 24.70.95.204] File does not exist: /usr/local/www/data/

What i dont understand is why /usr/local/www/data is involved.

I'm wondering if this is the default port installtion of apache.. but i removed that package and installed from the source.

Even when i make /usr/local/apache/www/data and put a copy of the httpd.conf and restart apache, i get the same 403 problem.

Another thing that i dont get is why if i specify a httpd.conf that was working fine... with the ./httpd -f /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf it still show's up as a 403 problem... Maybe someone could help me out, cuz i'm out of ideas.

Anon

are you doing a virtual host in apache?

Anon

I recommend doing a thorough browsing of the apache manual. All apache servers by default have it installed in the /manual directory, and it's good, if a bit big. Once you wrap your brain around it it'll start to make sense about the third time you configure a box.

On an apache box, you can read the virtual hosts docs at 127.0.0.1/manual/vhosts/index.html

Herein lies the short version.

First point, is that there are two kinds of virtual hosts, named and IP based.

Named virtual hosts let us put many servers on the same IP. I.e. you can have hundreds of names, but only one IP and get them all on the same address.

IP based virtual hosts are where you put a new virtual host on each IP, and no more than one hostname is allowed per IP.

In order to do name based virtual hosting, you have to use the NameVirtualHost directive (docs at: http://127.0.0.1/manual/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost )

It tells the server serve more than one name from a particular IP. If you use a complex enough configuration, you may wind up serving a bunch of names across multiple load balanced net cards.

First thing to do is crank up your error level to debug. Edit the httpd.conf file and find a line that says something like 'Errorlevel error' and change the error to debug.

Then reset the server and tail -f both access-log and error-log while accessing the server and let us know what else the daemons tell you.

Anon

QUOTE FROM THE MANUAL FOLLOWS

In Apache 1.3.13 and greater you can specify a * for the addr. This creates a wildcard NameVirtualHost which will match
connections to any address that isn't configured with a more specific NameVirtualHost directive or <VirtualHost> section.
This is useful if you want only name-based virtual hosts and you don't want to hard-code the server's IP address into the
configuration file.

END QUOTE

Anon

yes a few, i figured out what the problem was... on Fbsd 4.4 if you chmod 700 /home/drown ... for example... And you set you virtual host or default root doc in the httpd.conf it wont read the index.html or whatever file it is. chmod 755 though will fix that problem.