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December 6th, 2007, 07:02 PM

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MDaemon / WorldClient on Apache

Hi all,

Having some major issues trying to get Apache to allow access to a directory.. 403 errors everytime.

Here we go:

We are using MDaemon mail server, and want to allow web access to World Client, MDaemons webmail tool.

I am trying to setup a virtual host in Apache to handle the job. I am using Apache 2.2 on Windows installed to C:\www\apache\.

My windows HOST file contains the following line to handle the dns routing:

Code:

209.20.209.209    mail.oursite.com   // IP and DOMAIN masked for security reasons

My Apache httpd-vhosts.cnf file uses the following to assign the virtual host:

Code:

<VirtualHost 209.20.209.209:80>
    
    ServerName mail.oursite.com
    DocumentRoot "C:/MDaemon/WorldClient/HTML"
    
    CustomLog logs/wclient.access.log combined
    ErrorLog logs/wclien.error.log
    
    
          Options ExecCGI
          AllowOverride None
          Order allow,deny
          Allow from all
          RedirectMatch ^/$ http://mail.oursite.com/WorldClient.dll?View=Main

</VirtualHost>

That's it.. I navigate to http://mail.oursite.com and get the 403 forbidden error.. no idea why.

I followed the instructions correctly (i think) from MDaemons support site http://www.altn.com/Support/KnowledgeBase/KnowledgeBaseResults/?Number=KBA-01525

I can't even restart apache if I leave the OPTIONS thru REDIRECT directives intact in <Virtualhost> above..

Any ideas what I am doing wrong??

December 7th, 2007, 02:53 PM

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You need a <Directory> section that matches your DocumentRoot wrapped around your Options through Redirect directives:

Code:

<Directory "C:/MDaemon/Worldclient/HTML">
  Options ExecCGI
  ...
  Redirect ...
</Directory>

This is because a well secured web server will have a <Directory /> (<Directory "C:/" in Windows) with Allow from none to prevent access to your root file system, followed by a <Directory> to override those settings for any DocumentRoot.

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April 18th, 2008, 04:03 PM

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download MDaemon WorldClient

Hi.

Where i can download MDaemon WorldClient for my linux?

Thansk.

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