The solution to the problem was that I needed to add a <Directory/> to the vhost. I do not know why it would need the root directory, but as long as it is fixed then I do not care. Would this cause any security risks or is it fine to add this directory?
BTW: Thank you for your responses it has helped a bunch. On Apr 28, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:53 PM, J. Stephens <onlineworkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > error log says "[Thu Apr 28 13:50:57 2011] [error] [client 98.226.168.246] > client denied by server configuration: /" > my website is at /var/www/testing600.remcycle.net/. Should it be saying that > directory and not the root directory? >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:37 AM, J. Stephens <onlineworkm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> I am getting 403 errors when I add a new vhost. at testing601.remcycle.net I >> get 403, but at testing601.remcycle.net/index.html it works. What are the >> possible causes of this 403 error? > > All it is telling you is the configuration that is being inherited from a > config for /. > > The closest thing I have to Debian Squeeze is Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04). It > has this comment in "/etc/apache2/conf.d/security": > # Disable access to the entire file system except for the directories that > # are explicitly allowed later. > # > # This currently breaks the configurations that come with some web application > # Debian packages. It will be made the default for the release after lenny. > # > #<Directory /> > # AllowOverride None > # Order Deny,Allow > # Deny from all > #</Directory> > > Since Squeeze is after Lenny, this might mean that a good place to start > looking for your problem is wherever you have your <Directory > /var/www/testing600.remcycle.net/> directive. > > Do you have the mod_info handler enabled? It might be able to help find the > offending directive. > (Documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_info.html) > > > - Yehuda
