[TriLUG] emergency website help needed

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

Thanks William,

I fixed it, and I'll post the solution here and to the Debian forums.

An Apache update changed the path format for redirect rules from relative
paths to absolute paths.

It was very difficult to track down.

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Wesley S. Garrison
Network Engineer
Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
fax:       (919) 932-5051
__________________________________
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:50 AM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> Wes,
>
> a few thoughts/questions:
> 1. Is this still a problem?  If not, the rest of this is immaterial, but a
> posted solution might help close it for any future searches.
> 2. Can you revert your apache config back to the previous version?
> 3. What permissions (owner, group, and mode) exist on stock apache config
> files that you might not have touched (for example, httpd-ssl.conf)?  Try
> setting those on the config files you changed.
> 4. Does apachetctl configtest report any problems with the config?
> 5. Has your new config been tested somewhere other than production?  If
> not, I highly suggest building a test server for config change validation.
>
> William Sutton
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2017, Bill Trautman via TriLUG wrote:
>
> Permissions on the files change with the pull?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 10:09 AM Wes Garrison via TriLUG <
>> trilug at trilug.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I've managed to break all the rewrite rules on our website and I'm not
>>> sure
>>> how I did it.
>>>
>>> I tried to push a bunch of changes live by pulling from our git repo
>>> instead of just copying the files over by hand like I normally do, and
>>> everything broke.
>>>
>>> This is with Apache 2.4
>>>
>>> I can access all the files by typing in the entire link, but the re-write
>>> rules all give a "forbidden" error.
>>>
>>> The log shows:
>>> client denied by server configuration
>>>
>>> I've tried every permission I can possibly think of, and I've been
>>> googling
>>> for 2 hours.
>>>
>>> Can I set up a call with someone who knows more about this than me?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Wes
>>> _________________________________
>>> Wesley S. Garrison
>>> Network Engineer
>>> Xitech Communications, Inc.
>>> phone:  (919) 260-0803
>>> fax:       (919) 932-5051
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