'403 Forbidden' error

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#1

Hi Rahul/Mitesh,

First of all thank you so much for creating this tool. EE is an excellent tool that can take even a complete newbie like me to launch my website with ease. I followed the instructions to the T and successfully installed a demo blog just to check out.

I now have a tracking script that I need to install on a sub domain. For that I installed a mySQL site with the following command:

ee site create freemobilecalls.org --mysql

Once completed, I copied the script file into the new site folder.

Created a new database and user through PHPmyAdmin.

Now when I navigate to site to install and complete the script setup process, I get 403 forbidden error. my website where I have installed the tracking software is http://tracker.freemobilecalls.org and since it was giving out error I also installed the site under the main domain freemobilecalls.org

My test WP blog at demoblog.freemobilecalls.org works fine though.

Where did I go wrong with the mySQL site?

Thanks so much for your help.

Mark

#2

First if you created a site with --mysql then its automatically create a new database user and setup random passoword at /var/www/example/com/ee-config.php file

You can used same database or create a new one with the help of phpMyAdmin

Please provide us a output of following command
Please replace example.com with your domain name

cat /var/log/example.com/log/*

#3

Also you created a following site

ee site create freemobilecalls.org –mysql

If you want to create http://tracker.freemobilecalls.org then
ee site create tracker.freemobilecalls.org --mysql

#4

Hi Mitesh,

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my query.

I have both the sites created with --mysql option i.e. tracker.freemobilecalls.org and freemobilecalls.org.

When I ran the command cat /var/log/example.com/log/* for both the above sites separately, I got the message: cat: /var/log/freemobilecalls.org/log/*: No such file or directory

Thank you so much once again… Awaiting for a possible solution.

Mark

#5

Please send me the output of following commands

cat /var/www/tracker.freemobilecalls.org/logs/*  
ls /var/www/tracker.freemobilecalls.org/htdocs/
#6

Hi Mitesh,

The htdocs directory is empty. Also the access.log and error.log files are empty. Please see the screenshot attached.

Also please note, I deleted the old site and redid everything with the new website http://track.freemobilecalls.org.

Thanks.

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#7

sorry… I missed one attachement.

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#8

You have to create index.php or index.html file inside htdocs

Also give the ownership to www-data user

echo "Its works" >> /var/www/track.freemobilecalls.org/htdocs/index.php  
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/track.freemobilecalls.org/htdocs/index.php
#9

Thanks Mitesh I did that and now it works. The newly created file output shows under the main domain.

I have a prosper202 script that I need to install under the main domain. In that case should I move all the files relating to the script from the main directory to the htdocs directory? This script will run only under a domain and will not work under a directory.

Secondly, I think I messed up with my PHPmyAdmin installation. Is there any command in easyengine where in I can repair my ee installation so it reinstalls or repairs PHPmyAdmin?

The error occured when I was trying to create a blowfish secret passphrase with the following instructions:

Add blowfish_secret passphrase

If you see the following error message at the bottom of the page when you first log in to /phpmyadmin (using a previously setup MySQL username and password) :

ERROR: The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret)

You need to add a blowfish password to the phpMyAdmin’s config file.

Edit /etc/webapps/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and insert a random blowfish “password” in the line
$cfg[‘blowfish_secret’] = ; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */

Go here to get a nicely generated blowfish_secret and paste it between the marks. It should now look something like this:

$cfg[‘blowfish_secret’] = ‘qtdRoGmbc9{8IZr323xYcSN]0s)r$9b_JUnb{~Xz’; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */

The error should go away if you refresh the phpmyadmin page.

Thanks so much for all your help.

Mark

Should I shift all the files under

#10
I have a prosper202 script that I need to install under the main domain. In that case should I move all the files relating to the script from the main directory to the htdocs directory? This script will run only under a domain and will not work under a directory.

You should move all your script files inside htdocs so you can directly access via domain name.

Secondly, I think I messed up with my PHPmyAdmin installation. Is there any command in easyengine where in I can repair my ee installation so it reinstalls or repairs PHPmyAdmin?

You can re-install phpMyAdmin by using following commands
ee system remove phpmyadmin
ee system install phpmyadmin

#11

Thank you so much Mitesh. Things look okay now.

#12

Hi Mitesh,

Unfortunately prosper202 does not run well because it is put under htdocs.

Is there a way I can run the file without using the htdocs directory? I want all the php files to reside in the main domain directory and not under domain/htdocs directory.

Thanks,

Mark

#13

I thought of adding the error screen shot if that can give you some insights please.

Thanks.

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#14

Its seems like your file is not copied properly

Error: unexpected end of file

Please check the file is copied properly

#15

No problem… Thanks Mitesh. I reinstalled everything from scratch manually and now it works fine.

Thanks once again for all your support.

Mark

#16

Glad to know that your issue is fixed :slight_smile:

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