403 Forbidden on front page with apache 2.4

[Ole Martin Bjørndalen]

Apache says:

    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access / on this server.

The log file reports:

    AH01630: client denied by server configuration

The problem can be fixed by adding this to apache.conf (or to the file including it):

    <Location />
        Options +ExecCGI
        Require all granted
    </Location>

This will not work in older versions of Apache, as the "Require all granted" syntax was introduced in 2.4.

See:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12759854/client-denied-by-server-configuration-while-trying-to-use-git-http-backend-exe

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/upgrading.html

(Thanks to Rockj for help with this bug!)

[Morten Brekkevold (mbrekkevold)]

Do you see any provisions for automatically only including these config tidbits if the running Apache version happens to be 2.4? I would rather not maintain config files for multple Apache versions unless it becomes really necessary. I would probably want to ship nginx config examples before that :)

[Ole Martin Bjørndalen (olemb)]

That's a good idea. It turns out Apache has a directive for this:

    <IfVersion >= 2.4>
        <Location />
            Options +ExecCGI
            Require all granted
        </Location>
    </IfVersion>

There should probably be a comment above this, but I can't think of one at the moment.

[Morten Brekkevold (mbrekkevold)]

fix here: https://nav.uninett.no/hg/default/rev/286b26aa8247