[freeside] 403 Forbidden!

Joel Griffiths griff at aver-computer.com
Tue Oct 5 08:43:14 PDT 1999


On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you sed:
> I forgot to mention in my last email that I get this:
> 
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /freeside/edit/cust_main.cgi on this
> server.
> 
> 
> When I try to edit users from the docs etc.
> 
> I am using Apache. I don't know which version. How do you find that? Anyway, I
> have in my access.conf file:
> 
> <Directory /home/httpd/html/freeside>         #Note: I hate how RedHat puts
> software root directories in the /home/directory :(
> Options None
> AllowOverride AuthConfig
> </Directory>
Add ExecCGI to your options.



> 
> and in my srm.conf file:
> 
> # To use CGI scripts:
> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
> 
> 
> My .htaccess file inside the /home/httpd/html/freeside/ dir looks like this:
> 
> AuthName "restricted stuff"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/users
> 
> require valid-user
> 
> 
> /etc/httpd/users looks like this:
> 
> collin:xxxxxxxxxx (Where xxxxxxx is actually my encrypted password)
> 
> 
> I ran:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
> 
> and
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
> 
> Then when I try to access /home/http/html/freeside/ it makes me authenticate.
> The index page loads ok, but then it doesn't let my use the cgi scripts.
> *shrug* Any ideas??
> 
> NOTE: This may be infuriating, but I am still part way through the install.
> Waiting to hear back about how the Authentication is supposed to be set up (ie
> do I have it right as above??) and I don't have SSH installed yet. But
> shouldn't the scripts run anyway??
> 
> Collin Baillie
> gvlink at tropinet.com
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