>Number: 4408
>Category: general
>Synopsis: Improper error message returned by server when a remote file
>server is down.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Thu May 13 11:10:01 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3.6
>Environment:
Solaris 2.6 Generic_1.5181-11
Sun cc
>Description:
When a remote file server goes down (in our case, an afs file server), the web
server returns a "Forbidden" error, because it can't access a .htaccess file.
Since the error actually returned when attempting to read a .htaccess file is
"ENODEV", it's possible to modify main/http_config.c to return
"HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" instead of "HTTP_FORBIDDEN" in that case. Could
this change be incorporated into the distribution?
>How-To-Repeat:
Only happens when a file server is down. (If I could predict those...)
>Fix:
% diff http_config.c-orig http_config.c
1256a1257,1266
> if (errno == ENODEV) {
> ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_CRIT, r,
> "%s pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess "
> "file, device not found",
> filename);
> ap_table_setn(r->notes, "error-notes",
> "Server unable to read htaccess file, denying "
> "access to be safe");
> return HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE;
> }
>Audit-Trail:
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