By: Eric Hoff

Eric Hoff — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:09:16 +0000

I got the 403 error until I added +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch to the Options directive as well. So my .htaccess file looked like this:
——————–
Options +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On
….

———————–
Thanks again for the help though! Saved me a lot of work!

By: Ben K

Ben K — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:13:20 +0000

I was seeing the error with perl scripts, even though I had FollowSymLinks in httpd.conf and .htaccess. This was on linux, and finally I found that the problem was in conf.d/perl.conf. I had

…
Options ExecCGI

I changed it to Options +ExecCGI
and it solved the problem.

By: Lijith

Lijith — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:44:21 +0000

I am facing the same problem ..
I can’t access my cgi-bin folder…
I am getting the error
“You don’t have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.”
I have set all the permissions for these folders.
I am using a Linux server and my httpd.conf file looks like this.
ServerTokens OS
ServerRoot “/etc/httpd”
PidFile run/httpd.pid
Timeout 120
KeepAlive Off
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15

StartServers 8
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 256
MaxClients 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 4000

StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

Listen 80
LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so
LoadModule auth_module modules/mod_auth.so
LoadModule auth_anon_module modules/mod_auth_anon.so
LoadModule auth_dbm_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so
LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
LoadModule ldap_module modules/mod_ldap.so
LoadModule auth_ldap_module modules/mod_auth_ldap.so
LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/mod_cern_meta.so
LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so
LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule imap_module modules/mod_imap.so
LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
LoadModule suexec_module modules/mod_suexec.so
LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk_cache.so
LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so
LoadModule mem_cache_module modules/mod_mem_cache.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
Include conf.d/*.conf
User apache
Group apache
ServerAdmin root@localhost
UseCanonicalName Off
DocumentRoot “/var/www/htdocs”

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Options +FollowSymLinks

UserDir disable
RewriteEngine On

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.cgi
AccessFileName .htaccess
HostnameLookups off

Order allow,deny
Deny from all
HostnameLookups on

TypesConfig /etc/mime.types
DefaultType text/plain

MIMEMagicFile conf/magic

HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog logs/error_log
LogLevel warn
LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\”" combined
LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b” common
LogFormat “%{Referer}i -> %U” referer
LogFormat “%{User-agent}i” agent
CustomLog logs/access_log combined
ServerSignature On
Alias /icons/ “/var/www/icons/”

Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

# Location of the WebDAV lock database.
DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ “/var/www/htdocs/cgi-bin/”

AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=*
AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip
AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*
AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core
AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^
DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif
ReadmeName README.html
HeaderName HEADER.html
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t
AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage cs .cz .cs
AddLanguage da .dk
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage eo .eo
AddLanguage es .es
AddLanguage et .et
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage he .he
AddLanguage hr .hr
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddLanguage ko .ko
AddLanguage ltz .ltz
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage nn .nn
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-BR .pt-br
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage sv .sv
AddLanguage zh-CN .zh-cn
AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw
LanguagePriority en ca cs da de el eo es et fr he hr it ja ko ltz nl nn no pl pt pt-BR ru sv zh-CN zh-TW
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
AddCharset ISO-8859-1 .iso8859-1 .latin1
AddCharset ISO-8859-2 .iso8859-2 .latin2 .cen
AddCharset ISO-8859-3 .iso8859-3 .latin3
AddCharset ISO-8859-4 .iso8859-4 .latin4
AddCharset ISO-8859-5 .iso8859-5 .latin5 .cyr .iso-ru
AddCharset ISO-8859-6 .iso8859-6 .latin6 .arb
AddCharset ISO-8859-7 .iso8859-7 .latin7 .grk
AddCharset ISO-8859-8 .iso8859-8 .latin8 .heb
AddCharset ISO-8859-9 .iso8859-9 .latin9 .trk
AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .iso2022-jp .jis
AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso2022-kr .kis
AddCharset ISO-2022-CN .iso2022-cn .cis
AddCharset Big5 .Big5 .big5
AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251 .win-1251
AddCharset CP866 .cp866
AddCharset KOI8-r .koi8-r .koi8-ru
AddCharset KOI8-ru .koi8-uk .ua
AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-2 .ucs2
AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-4 .ucs4
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8
AddCharset GB2312 .gb2312 .gb
AddCharset utf-7 .utf7
AddCharset utf-8 .utf8
AddCharset big5 .big5 .b5
AddCharset EUC-TW .euc-tw
AddCharset EUC-JP .euc-jp
AddCharset EUC-KR .euc-kr
AddCharset shift_jis .sjis
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .wml
AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
AddHandler php-script wml
AddHandler imap-file map
AddHandler type-map var
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
php_value include_path .:/usr/local/lib/zend:/usr/local/lib/php
Alias /error/ “/var/www/error/”

AllowOverride None
Options IncludesNoExec
AddOutputFilter Includes html
AddHandler type-map var
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
LanguagePriority en es de fr
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback

BrowserMatch “Mozilla/2″ nokeepalive
BrowserMatch “MSIE 4\.0b2;” nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch “RealPlayer 4\.0″ force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch “Java/1\.0″ force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch “JDK/1\.0″ force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch “Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider” redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch “^WebDrive” redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch “^WebDAVFS/1.[012]” redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch “^gnome-vfs” redirect-carefully

Please help me
Waiting for all your reply please.

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By: Antoine

Antoine — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:31:56 +0000

Thx for the tip, just fixed my problems with Mod_rewrite on OS X.

By: Yeago

Yeago — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:53:36 +0000

Strangely, I get this and yet the top of my .htaccess is:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

Wonder what’s happening. It seems to be prompting a 403 Forbidden on a perl script.

By: ron

ron — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:20:19 +0000

This would be helpful to know if your running apache 2.

http://www.gostubby.com/117.pc.specs.html

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:46:19 +0000

Thank you.

I was setting up a virtual host on a windows test pc and also had the same problem.
I have solved it slightly different though:
In httpd.conf I put
Options All in between the directory tags of my vhost directory
After that nothing was required to change in .htaccess and rewriting works fine.

I am putting up my findings on my blog on
http://www.hotdownloads.org

By: Erik Stabij

Erik Stabij — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:44:59 +0000

Hello,
thank you for your tip.
I was working on the configuration of some virtual hosts using Apache on a windows testpc and could not get the rewriting using .htaccess to work.
Then I saw the “[Sat Jul 22 22:44:38 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden” line in the Apache error.log. I Googled a bit and there you go you gave the needed lead to the solution:
I have put in httpd.conf:

…

Options All
…

Thanks
Erik Stabij
http://www.hotdownloads.org

By: mariuz

mariuz — Tue, 16 May 2006 09:14:29 +0000

thanks for the tip , we installed some phpbb module and had the same errors , now is fixed

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