[TriLUG] emergency website help needed

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
       I sure would like to know their reasoning...

> It was very difficult to track down.
>
> _________________________________
> Wesley S. Garrison
> Network Engineer
> Xitech Communications, Inc.
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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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