php - Error with .htaccess and mod_rewrite

Question

I'm trying to host a php based application with the following .htaccess values.

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /easydeposit
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

However, I keep facing the following two errors,

[access_compat:error] [pid 25330:tid 27] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /home/abc/opt/apache/htdocs/xyz/system/
[access_compat:error] [pid 25330:tid 27]  AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /home/abc/opt/apache/htdocs/xyz/private/
[access_compat:error] [pid 25330:tid 27] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /home/abc/opt/apache/htdocs/xyz/application/
[authz_core:error] [pid 25330:tid 27]  AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/abc/opt/apache/htdocs/xyz/.htaccess

I'm not sure why this is happening. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

If you have recently upgraded to a version of Apache greater than version 2.2, the authz_core error error might be coming from your httpd.conf or httpd-vhosts.conf file in the <Document> tags. mod_authz_core was introduced in Apache 2.3 and changed the way that access control is declared.

So, for example, instead of the 2.2 way of configuring <Directory>...

    <Directory "C:/wamp">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

Order and Allow directives have been replaced with the Require directive:

    <Directory "C:/wamp">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

Sources http://www.andrejfarkas.com/2012/06/fun-with-wamp-server-and-apache-2-4-2/ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html