Comments on: Apache Error: Client denied by server configuration

By: Iain Wright

Iain Wright — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:45:20 +0000

Cheers! Was the only thing that would fix my 403 forbidden

By: SN

SN — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:51:22 +0000

Awesome!! This helped me so much! Fixed my long pending error on a jiffy.. thanks so much

By: Antonio Veneroso

Antonio Veneroso — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:52:59 +0000

Rabbit, remember that, each time you change something in httpd, you must restart apache.
damonp, your solution is nice, but I think instead of allowing everyone to see the root directory you should allow only the htdocs directory. In the httpd.conf, right after

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all

there is another rule, exclusive for the htdocs directory

# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled – so if something’s not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#

#
# Possible values for the Options directive are “None”, “All”,
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that “MultiViews” must be named *explicitly* — “Options All”
# doesn’t give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be “All”, “None”, or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride None
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Hope this helps to someone.
Antonio.

By: damonp

damonp — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:24:30 +0000

Have you looked in the error log to see the full error?

By: Rabbit

Rabbit — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:05:11 +0000

Hi, I am getting a 403 error for all my static content which should be served by apache. I tried to comment out the line which you have mentioned above, but that did not take care of the error. I have checked all the permissions and the apache user has permissions to view all the static content. What could the problem be???? Please help as we go live in a week!!!

By: mao

mao — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:42:42 +0000

thanks a lot . You save my job. I have confused with this error for a week, try to solve it from google but always fail. Until I find the right solution from you. Thank you guy!

By: Gazbrad

Gazbrad — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:16:02 +0000

At last! Thank you very much for this info.

I’m doing some Apache/PHP/mySQL tutorials and not being able to start my personal web pages for testing was driving me insane. All is well with the world now and I can stick my virtual hair back onto my head.

By: moecklund

moecklund — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:53:31 +0000

Lovely lovely lovey
That was it
thx!

By: Permission denied when accessing Sites directory on a Mac - paulcarvill.com

Permission denied when accessing Sites directory on a Mac - paulcarvill.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:25:44 +0000

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By: TDavis

TDavis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:12:12 +0000

Terrific fix. Many thanks.