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I'm constantly getting 403 errors via Hiawatha. I've got a slightly different Debian setup (with /home/<first letter>/<user name>), defined via /etc/adduser.conf

The log file returns this:

Wed 03 Jun 2009 21:34:01 +0100|92.236.218.178|/home/x/xyz/domains/xyz.com/banshee/public/index.php|access denied via filesystem

I've added www-data to users (/home/* it chgrp'd to users with 755 permissions and /home/*/* to username:username* (*user group with same name) with o-rx permissions).

Any ideas how to get around this?

Hiawatha version: 6.14
Operating System: Debian Lenny

The best thing to do is to switch to user www-data, chdir to the specific directory and try to cat the file you want to request via Hiawatha. It will point out where it goes wrong.

Odd... I was able to cat index.php just fine that way... Yet via browser I get the 403 error and the above error in the log.

Can you show me your configuration file? Anything special about your server besides the home directories?

Hi,

Sorry for this question, maybe its just ignorance on my side.
I am new to linux so this may be (a big) part of the problem.

I installed Hyawatha 6.16 on Xubuntu 9.04, following the excellent directions given by Samiux.
Could compile and install without problems.

I changed the WebsiteRoot = /var/www/analyte/public and I can access my own index.html file (http://soporte.analyte.com/index.html) from the browser without problems, so I know Hyawatha is up and running.

I also configured PHP, created a small info.php file and put it in the /var/www/analyte/public directory where the index.html file is.

Th problem is when I try to get the info.php file from the browser (http://soporte.analyte.com/info.php) I get a (BIG) 403 Forbidden error. I tried to change the permissions on the analyte/public directory and on the file but nothing changed.

After reading post "CONSTANT 403 ERRORS" in the forum I tested with the www-data user as you suggested.
Following are the results:

>>>>
$su - www-data

$cd /var/www/analyte/public

$ ls -l
total 8
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 78 2009-10-15 15:03 index.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2009-10-15 17:35 info.php

$ /usr/bin/php5-cgi -v
PHP 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.2 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Aug 21 2009 19:06:32)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies

$ /usr/bin/php5-cgi info.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.2
Content-type: text/html
PHP esta corriendo aqui !$
>>>

And the script is executed without problems !
I know this must be a permissions problem but cannot figure out.

Thanks for any help you can provide.
And congratulations for this excellent piece of software.

Mario

Did you add 'ExecuteCGI = yes' to the host configuration?

Hugo,
Thanks for your prompt answer.

Just to be sure I built everything again using the 6.17.1 files.
I reinstalled the pckg and restarted with the minimum conf files , adding ExecuteCGI=yes as you suggested.
I have the UseFastCGI line comented.

And It worked ! So at least I have PHP working with CGI.

I will now try to use FastCGI.
For that purpose I understand I have to comment the ExecuteCGI line and uncomment the UseFastCGI line (and configure the FastCGI section of course).
Is this right ?

When I finish all the setup I will write small briefing on how we are using Hiawatha :-)

Thanks again.
Mario

By the way:
Not a problem, but just to let you know in case there is a problem with the pckg installer in Ubuntu/Debian.
I am using Ubuntu 9.04.
When I reinstalled the pckg the conf files were not copied to the /etc/hiawatha dir.
I tried a couple of times, but were not copied.
I have to copy them by hand.

Best regards
Mario

How to configure CGI and FastCGI, just read the HOWTO. It's all there.

Just to let you know you have another Hiawatha happy user !
Everything worked fine with FastCGI, I have everything running ok.
I hope to begin some load and performance tests in a couple of weeks.
I will keep you informed.
Best regards and thanks for your help.
Mario