403 forbidden on ..shibboleth-ds/index.html

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/14/15, 11:00 AM, "users on behalf of Keith Hazelton" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of keith.hazelton at wisc.edu> wrote:

>I’m doing initial configuration of the embedded discovery service on an Shib SP 2.5.5.  When I go to /secure, I get back a 403 forbidden: You don't have
> permission to access /shibboleth-ds/index.html on this server. I’m using the config setup right from the wiki pages.  Is this a permission error somehow?

No, Apache 2.4 is just a really, really strict system now. You can't access anyting mounted indirectly with an aliased location unless you add appropriate rules allowing access. It used to be that the root of the filesystem wasn't inaccessible, it was just "hidden". Now it's blocked by default, so every location/file/directory has to be explicitly opened up to access.

-- Scott