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Questions tagged [http-status-code-403]

403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated. If the request method was not HEAD and the server wishes to make public why the request has not been fulfilled, it SHOULD describe the reason for the refusal in the entity. If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 404 (Not Found) can be used instead.

The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated. If the request method was not HEAD and the server wishes to make public why the request has not been fulfilled, it SHOULD describe the reason for the refusal in the entity. If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 404 (Not Found) can be used instead.

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Getting 403 on apache with php on fedora 17

I put the projects on ~/public_html/project and create a soft-link in /var/www/html/project which point to ~/public_html/project. my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf is shown below ServerRoot "/etc/httpd" PidFile run/httpd.pid Timeout 60 KeepAlive…
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Apache virtual host configured with a sym-link to a folder in my user directory fails with 403 Forbidden

I'm sure someone has asked/answered this before but my search hasn't helped me much so... I have Eclipse IDE installed on my Linux box (LM13) with the 'workspace' folder located @ /home/user/projects/workspace I have Apache installed and set-up,…
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Apache 403 - looking .htaccess in parent's parent directory

I am having this problem (apache2, ubuntu 12.04) I have put all my sites in /home/username/vhosts folder I have added permissions to home and username to be x and chmod -r 777 on vhosts Added /etc/hosts to access my sites with desired names Did…
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Broken URLs after enabling mod_security

For example this pdf stopped working after enabling the mod, it generates 403 error. [Wed May 30 18:47:19 2012] [error] [client xxxxxxxxxxx] ModSecurity: Warning. Match of "within %{tx.allowed_http_versions}" against "REQUEST_PROTOCOL" required.…
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"(13)Permission denied" error from Apache

This is an Apache server on Linux RH ES 5.6. I created a new Apache instance on port 443. When I try to access the website I get a 403 error. I see the following in my error logs: $ vi controlnetworx-int2_error_log.1336608000 [Tue May 15 15:07:07…
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apache httpd error: "mod_rewrite: can't access DBM RewriteMap file"

I'm running a fresh httpd install on Fedora linux and all my static content 403s. The error_log shows this: mod_rewrite: can't access DBM RewriteMap file How do I fix this? Thanks, Chris
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Nagios 403 forbidden, indexes?

I installed nagios under freebsd 9, but can't figure out the right way for it to be public in the browser (from other pc's). I think that the problem is in the indexes or that there is no index file (other than main.php). Apache says that syntax is…
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Failed PCI compliance - 403 (Forbidden)

Due to a recent upgrade in the scanning done by our PCI compliance testers, we recently failed a PCI, and the suggested solution is as follows: Configure the HTTP server to specify the same error documents for both 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (Page…
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Apache: Options +Indexes still results in 403 Forbidden or Apache Test Page

On a local dev server, I have an Apache conf for a website like so ServerAdmin no-reply@localhost ServerName sandbox.mysite.internal DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/sandbox/mysite ErrorLog logs/sandbox/mysite-error.log …
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Tomcat Manager 403 Behind Nginx

This has been driving me crazy for a few days now. Either I'm doing something completely wrong, really silly, or a combination thereof. I am on Ubuntu 11.10. I ran the following commands: sudo apt-get install nginx sudo apt-get install tomcat7…
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What's causing these 403 errors for the DocumentRoot on my Apache setup?

I'm configuring Apache myself, and trying to force myself to (re-)learn the configuration process. It's been a long time! Version is Apache/2.2.21 running on Amazon Linux I'm planning on running a few sites from this server. I've…
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403 error trying to access admin panel on Tomcat 7

I'm having trouble accessing my Tomcat admin panel. I've configured everything correctly as far as I can see (adding an admin/manager user to tomcat-users.xml). I can log into manager/html and enter my credentials, then get presented with a 403…
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Fixing error 403 with Varnish cache

I've been running varnish (3.0.1) in front of Apache and during a spike in traffic two days ago all visitors to the site started to receive a 403 error. From Googling about I've found one thread which says this is caused by Varnish's IP being passed…
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Recieving 403.4 Error only from a specific server & on speficic files

I have a wierd problem, I've launched a website recently on IIS6, and it is working good, accesible from every computer I've tested. On one network, however, the one's of my client, it is only partially accesible. When trying to reach the web site…
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Apache's built-in anti-dos mechanism by returning code 403?

In the process of learning more about how to survive simple DoS attack for my Apache server, I found some script to initiate attack on my own server and I notice that Apache returns error code 403 after a few attempts (instead of returning 200). I…
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