>Number: 5032
>Category: general
>Synopsis: when a network filesystem is unavailable,Apache returns access
>forbidden
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 17 11:30:02 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3.9
>Environment:
any OS that supports a network filesystem
>Description:
in http_request.c, get_path_info calls stat(). if stat() fails with any
error other than ENOENT, ENOTDIR, or EACCES, Apache returns
HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
if you're serving files from a network filesystem (NFS, AFS, DFS...)
when the filesystem is unavailable for whatever reason, stat()
will return ETIMEDOUT. this will result in an access forbidden page being
returned to the end-user. This is very confusing for the end-user,
and very annoying for the administrator who gets plagued
with complaints about misconfiguration.
>How-To-Repeat:
<NA>
>Fix:
I propose the following addition to get_path_info():
#if defined(ETIMEDOUT)
else if (errno == ETIMEDOUT) {
ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_ERR, r,
"access to %s timed out", r->uri);
return HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE;
}
#endif
I believe the service unavailable error message is much more
indicative of the underlying problem.
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