[SATLUG] Apache 1.3

[Steven Winston]

Walt,
	the httpd.conf file has all the configuration stuff you're gonna 
need.  It's changed as of Apache 1.3.4 to no longer put new stuff in 
access.conf.  And if you're not a fan of modules then you're out of luck.  
As of Apache 2.0 they're using MPMs (Multi-Processing modules).  So 
everything has changed.  For those who care the reason for the switch is 
to support/custimize to more operating systems.  The linux default module 
is threaded where windoze is mpm_winnt MPM.  If you want to keep your old 
1.3 configs use prefork MPM.
Anyway here's my answer to your question:
what does your directory premissions look like in httpd.conf?
here is a defualt one that seems to work well for me on my 1.3 system.
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride ALL #this allows .htaccess overrides in directories
<Limit Get>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Limit>
</Directory>
Premissions are inherieted from directory to directory.  If you like 
making a lot of .htaccess files you could change that inherietence option 
by simply doing this in place of the above:
<Directory /var/www/html>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
</Directory>
Hope that helps...  I have a few more ideas but I want to see if the easy 
stuff fixes it first ;-)... good luck...
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Walt DuBose wrote:

> Ok, thanks so much to Red, Bruce and Jeremy.
> 
> I am using Apache 1.3.
> 
> The first problem is that Apache 1.3 has an httpd.conf and a
> commonhttpd.conf.  Most of the "stuff" that I am used to looking at in
> httpd.conf is now in commonhttpd.conf and httpd.conf is loading a bunch
> of modules.
> 
> The second thing I noticed and it went right over my head was that there
> is a /var/www/cgi-bin for "scripts" (I didn't look too closely at the
> sample in there but it might be where the php scripts are kept).  And
> there is a directory /var/www/perl where the two samples had .pl
> extensions which muct be where the perl scripts are kept. 
> commonhttpd.conf has much of the permissions "allow-deny" permissiona of
> the old httpd.conf.
> 
> So, I have edited my html forms to point to the /var/www/perl directory
> and now they run.
> 
> So the next questions is why am I "forbidden" to the directories under
> /var/www/html?  In a specific instance, I have HTML files in
> /var/www/html/test (where my test work is) and the test directory is 755
> and the files in the test directory are 644.
> 
> Note that in the commonhttpd.conf the DocumentRoot is /var/www/html.  In
> previous versions of Apache, anything under this directory was
> accessable.  Does this area need to be edited?  I really don't' want
> everything to be in the /var/www/html directory.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get to directories under /var/www/html?
> 
> 
> Walt
> 
> 
> 
> Red Lloyd wrote:
> > 
> > Just off the top of my head... take a look at the ScriptAlias stanza.  Should
> > look something like
> > <<snip>>
> >  #
> >     # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
> >     # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
> >     # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
> >     # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the
> > client.
> >     # The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
> >     # Alias.
> >     #
> >     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
> > 
> >     #
> >     # "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
> >     # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
> >     #
> >     <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
> >         AllowOverride None
> >         Options None
> >         Order allow,deny
> >         Allow from all
> >     </Directory>
> > <<snip>>
> > You can add multiple stanzas for different directories.
> > 
> > > A quick couple of questions for those using newer versions of Apache
> > >
> > > 1) I have a directory /var/www/html/forms.  When I try to go to the URL,
> > > I get a FORBIDDEN message.  I changed the directory to 777 and still get
> > > the forbidden.
> > >
> > > 2)  I put my Perl files in the cgi-bin directory and made the 755 and
> > > get a FORBIDDEN message...I am forbidden access to that directory.
> > >
> > > Is there something in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf that I have to
> > > change or something else?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Walt
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