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Re: Any Apache Experts?

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At Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:44:54 +0000 Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 15:00:59 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
> > On 05/03/2026 14:56, Robert Heller wrote:
> >> "ERROR 403: Forbidden." more correctly means that the files are not "readable"
> >> by the httpd process. Depending on the distro, this could be because the files
> >> (or the directory they are in) are not owned by www-data (or whatever user the
> >> httpd runs as) or you have selinux installed and enabled and the files are not
> >> in an directory enabled for web access (eg with the proper selinux ACL). Or
> >> the files lack read access -- the file don't actually need to be owned by the
> >> user the httpd process runs under, so long as they and their parent
> >> directories have read access (the directories just need execute access to
> >> allow traversal). If the files/directories have a different group or owner,
> >> they need the proper group or world read/execute access. The MIME type only
> >> matters if that is needed for proper interpretation by the browser is an
> >> issue, but lacking a proper MIME type won't cause a 403 error. There *could*
> >> be issues if the files are symlinks and the FollowSymLinks Option is missing
> >> from <Directory> elements.
> >> 
> > Yes. It's a permissions, not a 'I can't understand the type' error.
> > Check to see who owns the files and what the perms are.
> > 
> 
> It can't be a permissions problem because I can just rename the files
> to add the "txt" extension without altering any permissions and then
> the files are accessible.

That makes no sense.  403 is specificly a permissions issue, never a MIME 
type.  Maybe something else is going on.  Are you defining a *handler* for .cs 
files?  If so it might be a problem with the *handler* and not the files 
themselves.

> 
> What also puzzles me is that after checking the server logs there is no
> 403 error reported anywhere.
> 

Hmm... It might not really be a 403 error at all and something else is going 
on.  What *exactly* are these .cs files?

> 
> My .htaccess file is located in the root directory of the website tree.
> Maybe I need to move it the directory of the web page that actually delivers
> those "cs" files.

That should not matter.

> 
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Any Apache Experts? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-03-05 13:57 +0000
  Re: Any Apache Experts? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2026-03-05 14:56 +0000
    Re: Any Apache Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-05 15:00 +0000
      Re: Any Apache Experts? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-03-05 15:44 +0000
        Re: Any Apache Experts? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2026-03-05 18:43 +0000
          Re: Any Apache Experts? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-03-05 20:10 +0000
            Re: Any Apache Experts? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2026-03-05 21:04 +0000
              Re: Any Apache Experts? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-03-05 21:57 +0000
                Re: Any Apache Experts? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2026-03-06 01:47 +0000
                Re: Any Apache Experts? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-03-06 16:21 +0000
                Re: Any Apache Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-06 11:16 +0000
                Re: Any Apache Experts? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-03-06 16:33 +0000
            Re: Any Apache Experts? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-05 22:10 +0000
            Re: Any Apache Experts? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-03-05 22:19 +0000
              Re: Any Apache Experts? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2026-03-06 02:07 +0000
                Re: Any Apache Experts? vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-03-07 01:51 +0000
    Re: Any Apache Experts? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-05 20:59 +0000
      Re: Any Apache Experts? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-05 22:47 +0000
  Re: Any Apache Experts? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-03-06 16:30 +0000
    Re: Any Apache Experts? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2026-03-06 21:23 +0000
    Re: Any Apache Experts? vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-03-06 22:34 +0000

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