Re: [users@httpd] Re: Logs: How to find 403 forbidden error.

2016-04-08 Thread Francis Roy
On 16-04-08 08:06 PM, Jonesy wrote: Could it be possible that the plugin is getting a 403 from an_external_ fetch attempt? I.e., the 403 is in the logs of a server somewhere else on the planet. Yes, in fact, this is very possible. It is a third-party program making a direct request. Would a

[users@httpd] Logs: How to find 403 forbidden error.

2016-04-08 Thread Francis Roy
I have a user that is complaining that a PHP script (a Wordpress plugin) is complaining that there's a 403 error. I've looked in my logs and can't find it. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. My logs are at /var/log/httpd and I'm looking at both access_log and error_log (or some of the preceding ones.)

Re: [users@httpd] Apache permissions stabs new Linux user in face with icepick. Suggestions?

2016-03-09 Thread Francis Roy
On 16-03-09 09:47 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Francis Roy mailto:li...@unimportantstuff.com>> wrote: Thank you that answers my question quite nicely. It's not a giant flag waving at the internet, but if someone got a hold of my machine directl

Re: [users@httpd] Apache permissions stabs new Linux user in face with icepick. Suggestions?

2016-03-09 Thread Francis Roy
On 16-03-09 09:29 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Francis Roy Probably not but it's not the sort of question anyone can answer without spending a few days reviewing your situation. The reason most UNIX distros create the home directory for a user with mode 75

Re: [users@httpd] Apache permissions stabs new Linux user in face with icepick. Suggestions?

2016-03-09 Thread Francis Roy
On 16-03-09 08:44 PM, Eric Covener wrote: If you want to serve out of your home directory, it needs to be executable by "other". Thank you, Eric and Kurtis, both. That was the problem. I did the following: sudo chmod 755 /home/username If I may, a follow-up question: does this create a po

[users@httpd] Apache permissions stabs new Linux user in face with icepick. Suggestions?

2016-03-09 Thread Francis Roy
Hello everyone, I hope you can help a semi-experienced Windows apache user, new to Linux. I am unable to access files (anything) from http://localhost or from any of my vhosts. This is a new install of Linux Mint 17.x with the default Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) install at /etc/apache2 My websi