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[Joseph Hales]

Setup some new hardware today I think I am missing somthing obvious I installed ubuntu with a storage drive mounted as /images then installed fog 1.2 set permissions for the images directory ie. but now I am unable to access the fog management page all i get is.

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /fog/management on this server.

root@934fog1:~# sudo touch /images/.mntcheck
root@934fog1:~# sudo touch /images/dev/.mntcheck
root@934fog1:~# sudo chown -R root:root /images
root@934fog1:~# sudo chmod -R 777 /images

[Sebastian Roth]

Do you see anything in the apache error_log? Please try restarting apache to see if you get any errors: service apache restart (or maybe apache2)

[Tom Elliott]

Sounds like the web folder has improper permissions . Try

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html
sudo find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

[Joseph Hales]

chmod: cannot access ‘/var/www/fog’: Too many levels of symbolic links
root@934fog1:~# sudo find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 644 {};
find: missing argument to `-exec’

[Tom Elliott]

You didn’t copy the fund command properly.

[Tom Elliott]

@Tom-Elliott updated the command I gave a bit below.

[Joseph Hales]

After commands apache2 fails to restart here is the apache error log.

[Fri Oct 23 14:24:26.511019 2015] [core:error] [pid 2403] [client 10.200.32.18:63439] AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/fog
[Fri Oct 23 14:41:48.982413 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 2400] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Oct 23 14:41:50.072348 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 6813] AH00163: Apache/2.4.16 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Oct 23 14:41:50.072387 2015] [core:notice] [pid 6813] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Oct 23 14:41:59.618161 2015] [core:error] [pid 6816] [client 10.200.32.18:56969] AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/fog
[Fri Oct 23 14:43:13.083367 2015] [core:error] [pid 6817] [client 10.200.32.18:57001] AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/fog
[Fri Oct 23 14:43:31.093977 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 6813] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Oct 23 14:45:52.701347 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 2298] AH00163: Apache/2.4.16 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Oct 23 14:45:52.708395 2015] [core:notice] [pid 2298] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Oct 23 14:53:26.707315 2015] [core:error] [pid 2301] [client 10.200.32.18:62259] AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/fog

[Joseph Hales]

The web page also continues to show 403 forbidden.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Joseph-Hales said:

Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible

Please see if you can find out which links you have in your web dir: find -P /var/www/ -type l -exec ls -al {} \;

And take a look at your apache config as well /etc/apache/sites-enabled/… Keep your eyes open for FollowSymLinks in the config. Maybe it is disabled in the main config?

[Tom Elliott]

@Uncle-Frank I remotes in with Joseph last night. We fixed the issue. Basically he had a link in www and www/html. They both pointed at each other which was causing the problem.