The allow statement only lets you view the docs from localhost, which explains the 403 (you should see that in your error log). You can safely remove those. - Y
On Sunday, July 19, 2015, John Fisher GM <john.fisher...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're running Apache 2.2 on Debian 7 wheezy. We have approximately 24 > virtual hosts. After running a few years, we saw some issues so we're > reviewing the entire Apache config. > > I hope this is an easy question :) > > On most of the files in sites-available, there is the following code: > > Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" > > <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> > Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 > </Directory> > > > From what I've seen, this is for reading the Apache docs, and not much > else. So is this snippet of code necessary? Can I safely delete it? > > Secondly, > > Just wondering, when I try http://www.mysite.com/doc ... I get Not > Found. > > *Not Found* > *The requested URL /doc was not found on this server.* > > And trying http://www.mysite.com/doc/ (with the slash at the end), I get: > > *Forbidden* > > > *You don't have permission to access /doc/ on this server. * > > Why would I not get access to any of the docs? > > Thanks for any enlightenment. > > > > > > > > -- Sent from a gizmo with a very small keyboard and hyper-active auto-correct.
