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Old 11-19-2015
Linux question on directories..

Hi,

First server every thing is working but keeps crashing so to be on the safe side created second server and moved all the files. But I notice there is a " dot " at the end. See below. Not sure what that means. Also getting 403 on Apache. Please see below. Thanks you so much.

Code:
ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root   4096 Aug 13  2013 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root      root   4096 Jun  6  2014 error
drwxrwxrwx.  9 apache    apache 4096 Jun 10  2014 html
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root      root   4096 Jun  6  2014 icons
drwxr-xr-x. 14 root      root   4096 Jun  6  2014 manual
drwxr-xr-x.  2 webalizer root   4096 Jun  6  2014 usage

Code:
wget 10.xx.x.xx
--2015-11-19 11:26:23--  http://10.xx.x.xx
Connecting to 10.xx.x.xx:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2015-11-19 11:26:23 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

# 2  
Old 11-19-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by samnyc
Hi,

First server every thing is working but keeps crashing so to be on the safe side created second server and moved all the files. But I notice there is a " dot " at the end. See below. Not sure what that means. Also getting 403 on Apache. Please see below. Thanks you so much.

Code:
ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root      root   4096 Aug 13  2013 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root      root   4096 Jun  6  2014 error
drwxrwxrwx.  9 apache    apache 4096 Jun 10  2014 html
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root      root   4096 Jun  6  2014 icons
drwxr-xr-x. 14 root      root   4096 Jun  6  2014 manual
drwxr-xr-x.  2 webalizer root   4096 Jun  6  2014 usage

[...]
Are you referring to the dot highlighted in red?
That indicates that the server uses SELinux and that the file has a SELinux security context.
Most likely you are being denied by SELinux. You may DEBUG it by temporarily disabling it, issuing the following command: setenforce "Permissive"
If after that things work, please, find out what context you need to fix and enable it again with setenforce "Enforcing"
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Old 11-19-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
Are you referring to the dot highlighted in red?
That indicates that the server uses SELinux and that the file has a SELinux security context.
In fact this is almost correct: the dot represents "extended attributes" being in place and they might come from SElinux or not. There might also be a "+" displayed which represents ACLs being in place. To get the extended attributes issue:

Code:
getfattr --dump <file>

In general i suggest switching off SElinux and never ever enable it again. It is a PITA and without any real value anyways.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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# 4  
Old 11-19-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
Are you referring to the dot highlighted in red?
That indicates that the server uses SELinux and that the file has a SELinux security context.
Most likely you are being denied by SELinux. You may DEBUG it by temporarily disabling it, issuing the following command: setenforce "Permissive"
If after that things work, please, find out what context you need to fix and enable it again with setenforce "Enforcing"
Thank you so much for your reply. I didn't know I enabled the SELinux. Now I set to permissive as you have told me. But still getting this 403 error message on Apache. Any idea.

wget 10.xx.x.xx
Code:
--2015-11-19 11:26:23--  http://10.xx.x.xx/
Connecting to 10.xx.x.xx:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2015-11-19 11:26:23 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

On the access log, I see this
Code:
 [19/Nov/2015:14:46:59 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 5039 "-" "Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu)"

error_log
[Thu Nov 19 14:55:10 2015] [error] [client 10.xx.x.xx] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/

I changed the whole /var/www/html to 777. Still getting this error message.
# 5  
Old 11-19-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by samnyc
I changed the whole /var/www/html to 777. Still getting this error message.
There might be access controls in place in the Apache server configuration (usually a file called "httpd.conf" somewhere). Have a look there for the "deny" and the "allow" keywords in the definition of the servers root directory.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 
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