Apache client denied by server configuration

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I am getting       Tue Apr 24 12 12 55 2012   error   client 127 0 0 1  client denied by server configuration   labs Projects Nebula bin    My directory structure looks like  I am using Symfony 2  should be similar structure for other web frameworks     I have vhosts setup like     lt VirtualHost nebula 80 gt      DocumentRoot   labs Projects Nebula web       ServerName nebula     ErrorLog   var log httpd nebula-errors log   lt  VirtualHost gt    lt Directory   labs Projects Nebula   gt      Options All     AllowOverride All     Order allow deny     Allow from 127 0 0 192 168 1   1 localhost  lt  Directory gt    I wonder whats the problem and how do I fix it

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OK I am using the wrong syntax  I should be using  Allow from 127 0 0 1 Allow from   1

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In Apache 2 4 the old access authorisation syntax has been deprecated and replaced by a new system using Require   What you want then is something like the following    lt Directory   labs Projects Nebula   gt    Options All   AllowOverride All    lt RequireAny gt      Require local     Require ip 192 168 1    lt  RequireAny gt   lt  Directory gt    This will allow connections that originate either from the local host or from ip addresses that start with  192 168 1    There is also a new module available that makes Apache 2 4 recognise the old syntax if you don t want to update your configuration right away   sudo a2enmod access compat

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Here s my symfony 1 4 virtual host file on debian  which works fine      lt Directory  var www sf project web  gt      Options All Indexes FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All     Order allow deny     Allow from all    lt  Directory gt    If you wan t to restrict access to a specific ip range  e g  localhost use this   Allow from 127 0 0 0 8   The mod authz host is responsible for filtering ip ranges  You can look up detailed things in there   But maybe the problem could be related to some kind of misconfiguration in your  apache2 conf    On what OS is the apache running

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Apache 2 4 3  or maybe slightly earlier  added a new security feature that often results in this error  You would also see a log message of the form  client denied by server configuration   The feature is requiring an authorized user identity to access a directory  It is turned on by DEFAULT in the httpd conf that ships with Apache  You can see the enabling of the feature with the directive  Require all denied   This basically says to deny access to all users  To fix this problem  either remove the denied directive  or much better  add the following directive to the directories you want to grant access to   Require all granted   as in   lt Directory  your directory here  gt     Order allow deny    Allow from all      New directive needed in Apache 2 4 3      Require all granted  lt  Directory gt

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if you are having the   Allow from All   in httpd conf then make sure us have      index php   like in the below line in httpd conf  DirectoryIndex index html index php

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Can you try changing  Allow from 127 0 0 192 168 1   1 localhost  to  Allow from all   If that fixes your problem  you need to be less restrict about where content can be requested from

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I had this issue using Vesta CP and for me  the trick was remove  htaccess and try to access to any file again   That resulted on regeneration of  htaccess file and then I was able to access to my files

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In my case the key was   AllowOverride All   in vhost definition  I hope it helps someone

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This code worked for me      lt Location   gt  Allow from all Order Deny Allow  lt  Location gt     Hope this helps others

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