Ubuntu – Apache2 doesn’t give files away

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what could it be a reason for such an error:

I get 403 Error: Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /munin/ on this server.

Permissions for files are the following:

max@ubuntu:/var/www$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  180 2011-12-28 16:06 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2011-12-28 08:55 munin

ADDITIONAL:

Thank you very much for your help! I did fix it by deleting the dir and targeting munin output html to another dir (actually with the same permissions). I use that apache only for munin, so that strange behavior is ignored.

I did try to access that my numin stats via DNS name. All files in the same www dir were available, also all files in sub/sub/sub/dirs were also available. Only ../munin dir was not working as I expected for some unidentified reason.

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Issues lies on the apache configuration for munin . As default apache config for munin will allow only the localhost. As you have used http://myhost/munin/. So, we have to modify the apache for the munin to access from all .You can find the default apache config for munin in dir /etc/munin/ as apache.conf .

Look for

Allow from localhost 127.0.0.0/8 ::1

Change to

Allow from all

After modifying restart the apache

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