By geertklaucke
Since my memory was constantly running full, I had to create a swapspace. After the reboot, my server is suddenly giving me a 403 on Apache.
What can I verify: /var/www (and all underneath) = www-data:www-data They have the proper CHMOD setting (755, or else where needed inside the /var/www folder and “below”)
Is there anything else I can check to get this back up and running? This is really frustrating.
In my project window from DO I also get: Not receiving metric data. Last working 2 hours ago
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403 is a permission issue and it could be many things (ex: from ModSecurity to file permissions). Your best bet is to look at Apache’s error log. Run httpd -V like this and it will show you where the error_log is:
httpd -V
<snip> -D HTTPD_ROOT=“/etc/httpd” <snip> -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG=“logs/error_log”
And then review the log entries to understand why it’s happening.
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