Re: mod_ruby gets 503 error

Brian Candler <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:01:21 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.apache.mod-ruby
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:34:41AM -0800, CyBerHigh wrote:
[stuff in a personal mail which should have gone to the list instead]
> Brian Candler wrote:
> 
> >403 = Forbidden.
> >
> >Can you see anything:
> >
> >(1) in the Apache error log
> >(2) in a HTTP response when issued manually, e.g.
> >
> >$ telnet localhost 80
> >GET /foo.rb HTTP/1.0       << Note this is CASE-SENSITIVE
> >Host: www.foo.com
> >
> >(end with a blank line, i.e. Enter by itself)
> >
> >Also, what happens if you remove the AddType line? The example at
> >http://wiki.modruby.net/en/?InstallGuide
> >is exactly the same as what you're trying to do, except they use *.rbx
> >instead of *.rb
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Brian.
> > 
> >
> Well when I go to the page and when I go through telnet I get a normal 
> 403 error from apache.  It is like:
> 
> HTML><HEAD>
> <TITLE>403 Forbidden</TITLE>
> </HEAD><BODY>
> <H1>Forbidden</H1>
> You don't have permission to access /public_html/main.rb
> on this server.<P>
> </BODY></HTML>
> 
> Now when I view the apache error log I noticed something interesting.  
> It seems that somehow it is redirecting the .rb files to a default 
> cgi-bin directory.  It is showing this:
> 
> [Sun Jan 22 02:36:10 2006] [error] [client 203.14.211.15] Symbolic link 
> not allowed: /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/
> [Sun Jan 22 06:55:12 2006] [error] [client 218.200.122.35] Symbolic link 
> not allowed: /home/
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

Yes - either remove the symlinks, or set options FollowSymLinks in your
Apache config. For example, perhaps /usr/local/www/cgi-bin is a symlink to
/usr/local/www/cgi-bin-dist or something like that. The default is that
Apache will not follow them, for security reasons.

Brian.