How do I resolve this 403 forbidden error

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I have a vhost on a Centos machine (Linux i-8941-35408-VM 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Jul 10 09:29:47 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux). My Vhost config file is as follows

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName subdomain.domain.biz ServerAlias sudomain.domain.biz DocumentRoot /home/myfolder/public_html/subdomain.domain.biz/public LogLevel warn ErrorLog /home/myfolder/public_html/subdomain.domain.biz/log/error.log CustomLog /home/myfolder/public_html/subdomain.domain.biz/log/access.log combined <Directory /home/myfolder/public_html/subdomain.domain.biz/public> Options FollowSymLinks -Indexes -Includes #What about Multiviews for Options above AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>

I do not have a .htaccess file.

The directory listing of the "public" folder is as follows

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2763 Jan 22 07:11 FailedTRAN.php -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11890 Jan 22 18:54 GetHandleRESponse.old -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12024 Jan 23 17:14 GetHandleRESponse.php drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 9 2012 images -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2562 Jan 22 07:11 Index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9556 Jan 23 18:21 SendPerformREQuest.php -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3396 Jan 22 07:11 StatusTRAN.php

I am able to access the Index.html from my browser, However any attempt to access GetHandleRESponse.php results in a 403 Forbidden error. So when I send out a request to another server the other server has to post its responses by accessing the GetHandleRESponse.php page. This fails. I am unable to figure out why this is the case. Any help would be appreciated.

castarco · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-24 14:24:38Z

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The directories should have the x permission (x doesn't mean execution when we work with dirs, x means access permission).

answered Jan 24, 2013 at 14:24

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sridhar pandurangiah Over a year ago

Thank you. However the issue was with the Security Context of these files. In SE Linux based flavours like Centos files have a security context. I did a ls -lZ and I got the following listing <br/> drwxrwxrwx root root root:object_r:user_home_t SendPerformREQuest.phpso I did a chcon -vR --type=httpd_sys_content_t SendPerformREQuest.php which resolved the issue.

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