Hi, since 2.2.11-01-1+b1 apache fails to read .htaccess files which aren't world-readable. For the sake of testing I reverted my vhost setup to "AssignUserId www-data www-data" and tried it with a .htaccess file in the DocumentRoot owned by www-data:www-data set to 640. An attempt to retrieve http://server/ generates the attached trace-640 and FAILS with a 403, the error.log simply states ******* [Tue Apr 14 23:51:01 2009] [crit] [client 10.0.0.101] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/http/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable ******* Another attempt with .htaccess set to 644 generates trace-644 and the retrieval succeeds. Just for the sake of completeness: after a chmod 644 .htaccess (from 640), a reload on the client immediately succeeds. On a chmod back to 640, apache2 needs a restart for the request to fail again - obviously in order to wipe the .htaccess cache.
I've experienced this behaviour on severals hosts, some of them with a pretty unspectacular testing-default-install without any changes to sites-available/default and just an EMPTY .htaccess put into /var/www - so the error's not content-related. I don't know if this issue is limited to mpm-itk or if other apaches have the same problem. All the machines I currently have access to are production machines and shouldn't be messed with, I'll have to setup a test-vm to check that and hand in these info later. If you need any further information, I'll gladly provide them. Cheers Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
