On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Bennett Haselton <benn...@peacefire.org> wrote: > By the way, I posted this question on vworker.com (where you can post "work > items" for contractors to bid on, although I more often use it to post > questions and then people submit bids for telling me the answer), and > someone told me the answer for $20. > > The answer, it turns out, is the /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf file has its > own ErrorDocument 403 directive which matches the "/" page when the "/" page > gives a 403 error, so that's why I was getting the Apache test page. > Comment out the lines in welcome.conf or replace it with a zero-byte file > and you're good. (It looks like on this machine we must have previously > figured this out at some point, because welcome.conf had been renamed to > welcome.conf.bak -- but then something mysteriously restored the > welcome.conf file, which broke it again. I assume it might have been a "yum > update" which put back the welcome.conf file. Hopefully having a zero-byte > file there will prevent yum updates from clobbering it.) > > This still does not solve the problem of why I'm not getting the right > custom 403 error when I go to https://209.160.28.154/ though... I still > don't know how to make the ErrorDocument directive apply to the https site.
There's nothing too special about ErrorDocument, see the basic rules of configuration sections here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html And recusrively grep your configuration if you don't know what's there. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
