[RESOLVED]RewriteRule directive is forbidden

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#1 Sun, 01/30/2011 - 00:29

kool_kid

[RESOLVED]RewriteRule directive is forbidden

Hi,

My apache logs have this error for all the domain which uses .htaccess file.

Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden:

I added Options FollowSymLinks to .htaccess file but the error remains. I also tried with Options +FollowSymLinks but to no success.

Most of the websites were running using .htaccess files from a long time, its now that this error starts appearing in my virtual domain log file.

I believe there is something to be done on httpd.conf file but dunno which part needs editing. By the way I'm using Virtualmin Pro.

Regards Kk

#2 Sun, 01/30/2011 - 06:53

Locutus

One possible reason might be that the .htaccess is not allowed to modify the status of "FollowSymLinks". You might want to check the Apache config of the domain in question for the "AllowOverride" directive.

#3 Mon, 01/31/2011 - 05:55

kool_kid

SuexecUserGroup "#517" "#519"
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
ServerAlias admin.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/mydomain/public_html
ErrorLog /var/log/virtualmin/mydomain.com_error_log
CustomLog /var/log/virtualmin/mydomain.com_access_log combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/mydomain/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /awstats /home/mydomain/cgi-bin
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5
<Directory /home/mydomain/public_html>
Options -Indexes IncludesNOEXEC FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
allow from all
AllowOverride All
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
AddHandler fcgid-script .php5
FCGIWrapper /home/mydomain/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php
FCGIWrapper /home/mydomain/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php5
</Directory>
<Directory /home/mydomain/cgi-bin>
allow from all
</Directory>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =admin.mydomain.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://mydomain.com:10000/ [R]
RemoveHandler .php
RemoveHandler .php5
IPCCommTimeout 31
<Files awstats.pl>
AuthName "mydomain.com statistics"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/mydomain/.awstats-htpasswd
require valid-user
</Files>
PerlRequire /etc/webmin/virtualmin-google-analytics/apachemod.pl
PerlOutputFilterHandler Virtualmin::GoogleAnalytics
Alias /dav /home/mydomain/public_html
Alias /pipermail /var/lib/mailman/archives/public
<Location /dav>
DAV On
AuthType Basic
AuthName mydomain.com
AuthUserFile /home/mydomain/etc/dav.digest.passwd
Require valid-user
ForceType text/plain
Satisfy All
RemoveHandler .php
RemoveHandler .php5
RewriteEngine off
</Location>
ProxyPass /dav/ !
ProxyPassReverse /dav/ !
<Proxy *>
allow from all
</Proxy>
RedirectMatch /cgi-bin/mailman/([^/\.]*)(.cgi)?(.*) https://mydomain.com:10000/virtualmin-mailman/unauthenticated/$1.cgi$3
RedirectMatch /mailman/([^/\.]*)(.cgi)?(.*) https://mydomain.com:10000/virtualmin-mailman/unauthenticated/$1.cgi$3

The above are the directives of the the domain in questions.

#4 Mon, 01/31/2011 - 07:52

kool_kid

The issue is resolved now.

In /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf file there was missing "-" before Indexes. Adding "-" to Indexes making it -Indexes resolved the issue.

Thanks for your help.

Regards Kk

#5 Fri, 11/02/2012 - 15:32

DarrellDuane

Your tip helped me figure out why the Welcome Screen was coming up for all of the websites on my server when I didn't have anything after the domain name. I was struggling with why I had to add index.html or index.php to get to my websites. I now have a dash in front of Indexes in my welcome.conf as appears below and it has fixed the problem:

root@answer conf.d# more welcome.conf
# 
# This configuration file enables the default "Welcome"
# page if there is no default index page present for
# the root URL.  To disable the Welcome page, comment
# out all the lines below.
#
<LocationMatch "^/+$">
    Options -Indexes
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
</LocationMatch>

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