At first glance, something in your browser is probably requesting the page /test. Since it doesn't correspond to any of your alias statements, it hits the DocumentRoot which you have denied access to.
Is there a corresponding entry in your access log? - Y Sent from a device with a very small keyboard and hyperactive autocorrect. On Feb 9, 2018 4:43 AM, "Marat Khalili" <[email protected]> wrote: Dear list, I've installed and configured mediawiki as follows (on top of default Ubuntu 16.04 Apache/2.4.18 installation): DocumentRoot /var/www/html > > <Directory /var/www> > Options None > Require all denied > </Directory> > > <Directory /opt/local/mediawiki> > Options ExecCGI > Require host proxy.example.com > </Directory> > <Directory /mnt/mediawiki/images> > Options None > Require host proxy.example.com > </Directory> > > Alias /wiki /opt/local/mediawiki/index.php > Alias /w/images /mnt/mediawiki/images > Alias /w /opt/local/mediawiki > *Everything works*, i.e. client successfully receive all pages with appropriate HTTP statuses in both client and Apache access log. However, for each request like /wiki/test I see the following extra message in error.log: [Fri Feb 09 09:35:25.368731 2018] [authz_core:error] [pid 695] [client > 10.4.1.4:56622] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: > /var/www/html/test > If I remove <Directory /var/www> clause, these messages disappear. They trigger fail2ban and are generally confusing. What may be causing them and how to make them stop? -- With Best Regards, Marat Khalili --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
