I have a strange problem that I hope someone can provide some pointers for.

I installed media wiki on RHEL4 up to the point that the web-based configuration needs to be run. A few weeks later (after leaving it alone) the same page gives "403 Forbidden". When I copy the entire media wiki folder to a new name it works in the new location. I swapped the directories back and forth and you can see below and the broken one isn't tied to the URL but to the actual files.

To sum up the troubleshooting I did:

#starting off in /var/www/html 701 wget http://localhost/vmtwiki/ #403 Forbidden 702 cp -r vmtwiki/ vmtwiki2 703 wget http://localhost/vmtwiki2/ #index.html.8 downloaded fine 704 mv vmtwiki vmtwiki.bad #show its not an URL problem 705 mv vmtwiki2/ vmtwiki 706 wget http://localhost/vmtwiki/ #index.html.9 downloaded fine 707 wget http://localhost/vmtwiki.bad/ #403 Forbidden #exact session copied below

I tried bouncing apache at various points but can't seem to shake the "403 Forbidden" error on the original directory.

I also found some other posts on the list without resolution: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/mediawiki-l/2006-November/016027.ht...

Versions are: Red Hat EL4 Update 4 php 5.1.4 mediawiki 1.9.3

Thanks for any tips or suggestions, -Amir

[root@copper html]# ll total 84 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 16 14:44 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Mar 2 11:32 index.html.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Mar 2 11:34 index.html.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 795 Mar 2 11:35 index.html.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 787 Mar 2 11:35 index.html.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Mar 2 11:38 index.html.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Mar 2 11:48 index.html.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 787 Mar 2 11:48 index.html.7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 2 11:27 test drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 17:41 vmt_example_template drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Mar 2 11:11 vmtwiki [root@copper html]# wget http://localhost/vmtwiki/ --11:49:31-- http://localhost/vmtwiki/ => `index.html.8' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 11:49:31 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

[root@copper html]# cp -r vmtwiki/ vmtwiki2 [root@copper html]# wget http://localhost/vmtwiki2/ --11:49:47-- http://localhost/vmtwiki2/ => `index.html.8' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 787 [text/html]

100%[============================================================================================================================================>] 787 --.--K/s

11:49:47 (125.09 MB/s) - `index.html.8' saved [787/787]

[root@copper html]# mv vmtwiki vmtwiki.bad [root@copper html]# mv vmtwiki2/ vmtwiki [root@copper html]# wget http://localhost/vmtwiki/ --11:50:30-- http://localhost/vmtwiki/ => `index.html.9' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 785 [text/html]

100%[============================================================================================================================================>] 785 --.--K/s

11:50:30 (93.58 MB/s) - `index.html.9' saved [785/785]

[root@copper html]# wget http://localhost/vmtwiki.bad/ --11:50:33-- http://localhost/vmtwiki.bad/ => `index.html.10' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 11:50:33 ERROR 403: Forbidden.