403 / forbidden - but why?

[k.satirli]

I reimaged my server and uploaded backups I made with plesk. I imported them via the shell in the way Plesk describes it in their FAQs.

Now, when I access domain.com I get 403 / Forbidden.

The error_log says:

[Fri Jul 22 16:01:44 2005] [crit] [client 84.86.11.210] (13)Permission denied: /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

Now, the error would be quite ... obvious but there never was a .htaccess file in there and even when I put one there (empty of course) and chmod it to 777 and chown it to domainsacln it doesnt work.

I've got no clue as to why. I'd re-create the client but the problem is that I have no clue how to back up my mails and I'd rather just fix the apache problem.

suggestions, anyone? how do I teach plesk to love me again?

 

[serial-thrilla]

anything fishy in the config files?

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Assuming you have Plesk 7.5.3 since you didn't say...

What version of PHP is on your server? This was an old PHP3 bug:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:hQc9CROUqJwJ:bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=1884+pcfg_openfile&hl=en

Another possibility: check the perms on the httpdocs folder (and ownership)

drwxr-x--x 12 ftpusername psaserv 4096 Jul 21 22:11 httpdocs

 

[k.satirli]

well that is of course most embarassing.

I thought plesk would restore the same chmods / chowns as before the backup but since it didnt work, I chmodded to ftpusernamesaCLN not psaSERV.

psaserv really did it for me.

thanks a lot.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

No problem, that is just another reason I use 4psa's Total Backup instead of psadump/psarestore.

It's always the simple things that get us

(like trying to learn how to rebuild php from sRPM's)