Re: [users@httpd] Spurious access denied errors

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Daniel wrote: The error may come from a subrequest, which is an internal feature where a module like mod_dir might use to probe if some URL exists. Thank you for the suggestion. I tried to disable mod_dir, fortunately mediawiki seem to

Re: [users@httpd] Spurious access denied errors

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Daniel wrote: > what if? > > The way I see it you are the admin and supposed to set up a correct > documentroot, there are not "what if" for things under your control > imo. > > About the internals probably some knowledgeable dev can tell you

Re: [users@httpd] Spurious access denied errors

what if? The way I see it you are the admin and supposed to set up a correct documentroot, there are not "what if" for things under your control imo. About the internals probably some knowledgeable dev can tell you much better than I, but afaik DocumentRoot is always checked because it is "where

Re: [users@httpd] Spurious access denied errors

> Probably because you are essentially denying access to documentroot and this > path is checked for all requests. Looks like your are right, but why? What if there's a file there? What if there's a script there? A device file or a symbolic link to one? > or change documentroot to a directory

Re: [users@httpd] Spurious access denied errors

Probably because you are essentially denying access to documentroot and this path is checked for all requests. Add a Require all granted or change documentroot to a directory you can give access even if it's an empty directory to get rid of those messages or change the documentoot to something

Re: [users@httpd] Spurious access denied errors

At first glance, something in your browser is probably requesting the page /test. Since it doesn't correspond to any of your alias statements, it hits the DocumentRoot which you have denied access to. Is there a corresponding entry in your access log? There's no entry in access log, and the

Re: [users@httpd] Spurious access denied errors

At first glance, something in your browser is probably requesting the page /test. Since it doesn't correspond to any of your alias statements, it hits the DocumentRoot which you have denied access to. Is there a corresponding entry in your access log? - Y Sent from a device with a very small

[users@httpd] Spurious access denied errors

Dear list, I've installed and configured mediawiki as follows (on top of default Ubuntu 16.04 Apache/2.4.18 installation):     DocumentRoot /var/www/html         Options None     Require all denied             Options ExecCGI