localhost access suddenly not working!

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Gnome 2.2 SUSE 10.3 Apache/2.2.4

How to fix this problem?

I’m getting Access forbidden Error 403 for
http://localhost/
http://127.0.0.1

and haven’t modified any configuration files!!!

http://localhost/server-info still working!

the only process I used was Yast HTTP Server to check configuration but did not save (Abort)

Thanks

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Look at /var/log/apache2/error_log as to the cause of the issue.

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Thanks Chrysantine,

I founded many entry like this one
[Tue Jul 29 12:18:31 2008] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Jul 29 12:19:56 2008] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Tue Jul 29 12:19:56 2008] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec2)
[Tue Jul 29 12:19:58 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Linux/SUSE) mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e PHP/5.2.6 with Suhosin-Patch configured – resuming normal operations

and few like this one!

[Thu Jul 24 17:41:33 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /srv/www/htdocs/

If it is the root cause? it doesn’t tell me what directive I have to change and what process changed it.

I’m new to linux I’m wondering if it not related to user access rights level or group? (default)

Thanks

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This is normal. Directory indexing is off by default in OpenSUSE, but if you put an index.html in the directory it will be served.

5

By default, Apache listen to index pages in SUSE.
try put some index.php or index.html and you will see the page.
Other wise will give forbidden error while accessing dir.

6

!index.html in /srv/www/htdocs is installed by default by apache RPM.

In the meantime I used Yast “HTTP server” and “DNS Server” to check settings instead of using “DNS and host name” GUI. and now it’s getting worst, I don’t even have access to http://localhost/server-info
that was working before.

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Try create index.php with the following code:

<?php
echo phpinfo();
?>

And save it as info.php in your www directory, and run it like:

http://localhost/info.php

Hope this helps.

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just to clarfied the situation

Errro 403 for
-http://localhost
-http://127.0.0.1
-http://localhost/server-info

all from /srv/www/htdocs index.htm or .php

but work find with

http://localhost/username/index.php

/home/username/public_html/ index.htm or .php

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I done it after installing appache and it was running find.
but now it only works from http://localhost/username/info.php not anymore from http://localhost/info.php

10

Founded the cause and solution

Using Yast2 “HTTP Server” GUI it created a new filename yast2_vhosts.conf in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/
this overwrite default installation settings by enabling a virtual host virtual host not working???

So I’m back to default settings.