[kwlug-disc] Apache 403 & access.log questions

[Charles M]

Hi all. I'm trying to install an application in a sub-directory of my
web server. The structure is something like:

/var/www/html/sitename/public_html/help/

When I surf to sitename/help/ access.log shows a 200 for the
index.html in that directory. However the index.html is just a
redirect to a subfolder below help called me/. That redirected folder
seems to be generating a 403 error. me/ has the same user and group
permission as well as the same access permissions - so I'm thinking
this has something to do with my main site apache configuration file?

Second question. In the access.log I saw a line that begins:

103.67.235.45 - - [04/Apr/2019:20:33:27 -0400] "POST
//?q=user/password&name[%23post_render][]=passthru&name[%23type]=markup&name[%23markup]=echo+R0lGOD

It goes on for something like 30 lines at the end of which is an
apache 414 error. It looks to me like someone is trying to hack the
site (drupal). Is it worth just dropping/blocking the IP?

Cheers and thanks,

Charles