Re: [cobalt-security] raq4 Forbidden?

["Mark Hudson (openmail)" <m.c.hudson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Scalsky" <sscalsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "cobalt-security" <cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: [cobalt-security] raq4 Forbidden?


> Just brought up a new RaQ4, applied all the necessary patches to bring it
up
> to date with no problems. The system allowed me to create a new site but
> then going into site manage gives me a "Forbidden - You do not have
> permission to access the requested file on this server". Nothing special,
no
> ssl, no frontpage, just a simple site. Looking around the "system
> status/disk usage" does the same thing. Are there any outstanding issues
> with patching that messes up the permissions in any way? Looked thru the
> knowledgebase but nothing found. Anyone have anything specific before I go
> mucking around? Rather not introduce a security issue by changing a lot of
> permissions if I can avoid it.
>

You can get this if you are logged in to the raq as the wrong user.

Also, it can happen if your virtual site is set up, say, as
newsite.example.com and you only go to http://newsite/ in your browser,
rather than http://newsite.example.com/

Mark