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

[Charles M]

So I've narrowed down the problem to my .htaccess file in the root
folder. When I temporarily moved the .htaccess file to .htaccessold
the site properly redirected to /help/me/index.php from the
/help/index.html. To be clear I have a Drupal instance in the root
folder of the website, say:

/var/www/html/site/public_html

Below this is the application:
/var/www/html/site/public_html/help

The index.html there contains the line: <meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="0;url=me">

In my Drupal directory (public_html) is an .htaccess file which contains:

  RewriteRule "^(.+/.*|autoload)\.php($|/)" - [F]

I believe it's this rule that's causing the php not to load. I tried
adding the following line above that rule:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/help/[^/]*\.php$

But that didn't seem to help. It's worth mentioning that there are
several sub-directories in the /help folder, not just /help/me that
would need their php files run (but not redirected to).

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 12:39 AM Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So if I touch index.html in the /help/me folder I get a white page as
> I should. It specifically seems to be the index.php in /help/me that's
> causing the 403. That index.php has the same user and owner as the
> index.html, minus a group write (which didn't make a difference when I
> briefly tried adding it).
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 11:21 PM Steve Izma <sizma at golden.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 09:34:53PM -0400, Charles M wrote:
> > > Subject: [kwlug-disc] Apache 403 & access.log questions
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by a redirect -- do you mean that that
> > sitename/help/index.html contains either an HTML <meta
> > content=...> tag (or some sort of javascript) or do you mean that
> > index.html is a symbolic link to something in the subdirectory?
> > If it's a link, then the apache config or .htaccess needs
> > "FollowSymLinks" as an option. I would think a symlink is more
> > straight forward than an extra file with code in it.
> >
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