<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’m at a loss what to do in response to the reply, below, from Bill Cole.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I note that to the best of my knowledge, nothing changed as to the attributes or permissions of any of the user doc folders listed in my httpd-vhosts.conf file except as may have been done without my knowledge in an update to macOS 11.3 or 11.4, or in case of some change in the MacPorts files supporting apache — but I believe I’m still using the very same configuration files, including httpd.conf, httpd-vhosts.conf, and httpd-userdir.conf (and /private/etc/hosts) as I have in the past!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. What should I do with respect to extended attributes? I get:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[~] % ls -le Sites</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>total 32 [some results omitted from list]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x@ 23 me staff 736 Jul 31 2020 Math421Blog</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x@ 92 me staff 2944 Apr 10 2015 MyHomePage</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x 32 me staff 1024 Jun 12 15:32 RapidWeaver</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x@ 20 me staff 640 Jun 17 10:23 html</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x 10 me staff 320 Aug 27 2017 newsite</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">And:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[~] % ls -le Sites/MyHomePage</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>total 541576 [I show only a couple of the files & folders]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x@ 73 me staff 2336 Jan 31 2015 Math_127</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x@ 146 me staff 4672 Jan 31 2015 Math_131</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 8331 Apr 10 2015 index.html</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 39890 Jun 2 2010 me.jpg</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 695 Feb 24 2011 site.css</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 1385 Feb 24 2011 style.css</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">2. In the vhost-specific error log /opt/local/var/log/apache2/me-MyHomePageerror_log </font><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class="">I’m finding entries like this:</span></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Courier" class="">[Thu Jun 17 15:17:10.509589 2021] [core:error] [pid 13543] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:53851] AH00035: access to / denied (filesystem path '/Users/me/Sites') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Jun 17 15:17:10.551868 2021] [core:error] [pid 13543] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:53851] AH00035: access to /favicon.ico denied (filesystem path '/Users/me/Sites') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path, referer: <a href="http://myhomepage.local/" class="">http://myhomepage.local/</a>
[Thu Jun 17 15:19:00.531386 2021] [core:error] [pid 13498] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:53909] AH00035: access to / denied (filesystem path '/Users/me/Sites') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path</font></pre><div class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">3. File httpd.conf includes the lines:</font></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>DocumentRoot "/opt/local/www/apache2/html"
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Directory "/opt/local/www/apache2/html">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> AllowOverride None
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Require all granted
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Directory></font></span></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">I don’t think that’s changed.</span></pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">4. The errors are occurring with Opera as well as with Safari. I don’t know if there’s any browser setting that’s upgrading http to https; I am explicitly using the “http:” prefix in “</font><a href="http://MyHomePage.local" class=""><font face="Courier" class="">http://MyHomePage.local</font></a><font face="Helvetica" class="">"</font></span></pre></div></div>On June 13 at 16:21 UTC 2021, Bill Cole <<a href="mailto:billcole@apache.org" class="">billcole@apache.org</a>> wrote:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">On 2021-06-13 at 11:47:53 UTC-0400 (Sun, 13 Jun 2021 11:47:53 -0400)
Murray Eisenberg <<a href="https://lists.macports.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users" class="">murrayeisenberg at gmail.com</a>>
is rumored to have said:
><i class=""> ls -ld Sites
</i>><i class=""> drwxr-xr-x@ 18 me staff 576 Feb 27 10:37 Sites
</i>
4 thoughts:
1. The '@' indicating the existence of extended attributes could be
overriding the '+' that is shown on files with extended ACLs, so any
level in the directory tree COULD have an ACL blocking the webserver
from reading the files or scanning the directories. Check with 'ls -le'
to be sure. This would be a simple but unlikely cause of the problem.
2. Check the error logs for details of the failure. There is a
vhost-specific error log defined, but there should also be a server-wide
error log which may contain illuminating entries.
3. Check the main httpd.conf for Directory or Location directives that
may be interfering with the Directory directives in the VirtualHost
definition.
4. Make sure you don't have anything automatically 'upgrading' you to
HTTPS. This can be in the server config or in a browser setting.
>><i class=""> On 12 Jun2021, at 8:37 PM, Jeff Greenberg
</i>>><i class=""> <<a href="https://lists.macports.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users" class="">listmail.ayendesigns at gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> How about the permissions on the Sites folder?
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> On Jun 12, 2021, at 20:24, Murray Eisenberg
</i>>><i class=""> <<a href="https://lists.macports.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users" class="">murrayeisenberg at gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> For the Macports apache2 installation, I’m using a non-default
</i>>><i class=""> location for my web sites. The httpd.conf includes a
</i>>><i class=""> httpd-vhosts.conf file, and the latter includes entries such as:
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> <VirtualHost *:80>
</i>>><i class=""> DocumentRoot "/Users/me/Sites/MyHomePage"
</i>>><i class=""> ServerName MyHomePage.local
</i>>><i class=""> ServerAlias <a href="http://www.MyHomePage.local" class="">www.MyHomePage.local</a> <<a href="http://www.myhomepage.local/" class="">http://www.myhomepage.local/</a>>
</i>>><i class=""> ErrorLog "var/log/apache2/me-MyHomePageerror_log"
</i>>><i class=""> CustomLog "var/log/apache2/me-MyHomePage-access_log" common
</i>>><i class=""> <Directory /Users/me/Sites/MyHomePage>
</i>>><i class=""> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</i>>><i class=""> Require all granted
</i>>><i class=""> </Directory>
</i>>><i class=""> </VirtualHost>
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> And in my /private/etc/hosts I include the lines:
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> 127.0.0.1 localhost
</i>>><i class=""> 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
</i>>><i class=""> ::1 localhost
</i>>><i class=""> fe80::1%lo0 localhost
</i>>><i class=""> 127.0.0.1 me-html.local
</i>>><i class=""> 127.0.0.1 MyHomePage.local
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> When I start apache and try to open the site MyHomePage.local, i get
</i>>><i class=""> error:
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> The permissions on /Users/me/Sites/MyHomePage are:
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> drwxr-xr-x@ 92 me staff 2944 Apr 10 2015 MyHomePage
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> and the permissions for /Users/me/Sites/MyHomePage/index.html are:
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>><i class=""> -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 8331 Apr 10 2015 index.html
</i>>><i class="">
</i>>></font><i class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""> What’s wrong?</font>
</i></pre><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="">
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