You don't have permission to access /cacti/index.php on this server

Question

in cacti.conf I tried to edit the default context from localhost to 0.0.0.0 (and everything in between). Now I only have

Alias /cacti /usr/share/cacti
<Directory /usr/share/cacti/>
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 0.0.0.0
</Directory>

in /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf. (also tried 192.168.0.0/24 and many others)

I have also tried chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/cacti and 0:0 and cacti:cacti of the same folder. Always the same permissions error.

I cannot log in locally, server is many many miles away with zero desktop.

Solution

According to the documentation on Apache....The directives you state will always result in denial..reasons:

1. Directive order deny,allow analyzes deny directives FIRST then allow directives.

2. Your deny from all directive matches everybody and thus due to #1 nobody gets access.

3. Your 0.0.0.0 IP number will not match everybody, thus your allow statement is not effective.

Try a sequence like the following to replace your three possibly problematic directives.

 Order allow,deny
 allow from all

Comments

[user3766148]

I tried -> <Directory /usr/share/cacti/> Order Deny,Allow Allow from all </Directory> <-- same issue but --> Order Allow, Deny <-- produces a new 'webpage not found', even though structurally speaking the file exist.

[user3766148]

logs are bare.. btw, 0.0.0.0 in the networking world means everybody, why would cacti be any different from cisco or iptables? --> 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 = any network any mask

[user3766148]

I was able to get past the denied issue by modifying the default cacti.conf, though I am still having permissions issues. bpaste.net/show/18ddd5914eb6