SID-00426: Cannot login onto configure page

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.3	Perl version:	perl v5.8.8
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Hi

When I try to access my configure page:

http://www.wikindian.com/wiki/bin/configure

I get following error:

"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /wiki/bin/configure on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

I am the administrator of this website so I should be able to login. Any ideas on what needs to be done or which files need to be checked so that it allows me to login?

Your help will be much appreciated.

Thanks Sushil

-- SushilRapatwar - 2009-07-20

Discussion and Answer

You need to configure the permissions in your web server properly. Perhaps, post your configuration file and say what system your using. Also List the files in the directory that you are denied access from. Sometimes permissions can be overridden by files in these directories.

-- JohnCreighton - 2009-07-22

Hi John Thanks for your input. Can you please elaborate what you mean by "You need to configure the permissions in your web server properly. Perhaps, post your configuration file and say what system your using" I mean how do I do that?

Also am not clear about what you mean in the second part.

As you might have probably noticed I am a layman and hence not able to make much sense out of your suggestions. Using filezilla I change the permissions of my /wiki/bin/configure to 777 just to check if I can login but still no joy.

Would highly appreciate if you or someone can provide a bit more detail.

Thanks Sushil

-- SushilRapatwar - 2009-08-03

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/SettingFileAccessRightsLinuxUnix

-- EnriqueCadalso - 2009-08-03

Check your web server configuration - if its apache check the httpd.conf file (generally its at /etc/httpd/conf directory). It should contain something similar to the following:

<FilesMatch "^configure.*">
        SetHandler cgi-script
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.10
        Require user JohnDoe
        Satisfy Any
</FilesMatch>

The issues are at "Allow from" list and "Require user" list.

-- SopanShewale - 2009-08-04

What operating system are you running TWiki on? Have you tried http://localhost/twiki/cgi-bin/configure? from the machine that you have installed the TWiki on?

-- OseiAmoafo - 2009-08-26

-- OseiAmoafo - 2009-08-26

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