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Client denied by server configuration error in Apache.

Posted Wed, 01/23/2008 - 00:33 by artur
Just in case if somebody else has a similar problem and can't get the Apache server working as expected. I have tried to setup proxy_mod under apache to forward HTTP traffic from AJAX Jabber client to the Bosh component running on Tigase server. It was working fine for a long time on my Gentoo server. I have recently wanted to run more tests on a separate machine and had this problem. It was a system based on the Debian distribution and the proxy_mod didn't want to work at all displaying the error message in a log file: [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: proxy:http://127.0.0.1:5280/xmpp/, referer: http://localhost/F5A379CEC35AEBCC5FFA11BA8A33CD02.cache.html All you need to do is to modify proxy.conf file for your Apache2 installation and setup proper permissions. By default the proxy is disabled for all. In my case I had to enable it just for a localhost. Example configuration from my vim mods-enabled/proxy.conf file: <IfModule mod_proxy.c> ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost </Proxy> ProxyVia On</IfModule>

Just in case if somebody else has a similar problem and can't get the Apache server working as expected.

I have tried to setup proxy_mod under apache to forward HTTP traffic from AJAX Jabber client to the Bosh component running on Tigase server. It was working fine for a long time on my Gentoo server. I have recently wanted to run more tests on a separate machine and had this problem. It was a system based on the Debian distribution and the proxy_mod didn't want to work at all displaying the error message in a log file:

[error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: proxy:http://127.0.0.1:5280/xmpp/
, referer: http://localhost/F5A379CEC35AEBCC5FFA11BA8A33CD02.cache.html

All you need to do is to modify proxy.conf file for your Apache2 installation and setup proper permissions. By default the proxy is disabled for all. In my case I had to enable it just for a localhost.

Example configuration from my vim mods-enabled/proxy.conf file:

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
  ProxyRequests Off
  <Proxy *>
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from localhost
  </Proxy>
  ProxyVia On
</IfModule>

 

Comments

Phew! Thanks a lot!

by Sebastian N. (not verified) - 12/04/2012 - 22:49

Phew! Thanks a lot!

While I was doing some urgent

by misteryfan (not verified) - 03/30/2012 - 09:08

While I was doing some urgent work, I stumbled with this problem. Believe it or not this is the most time consuming of my time when I did not have time to waste. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks!

by Tor (not verified) - 09/14/2011 - 20:32

Thanks!

Hi, thank you very much!!! I

by Alejandro (not verified) - 03/04/2011 - 13:25

Hi, thank you very much!!!
I spent almost 3 hours trying to make something similar, and this blog entry gives me the clue!!
Many thanks from Uruguay!

I had still trouble getting

by Anonymous (not verified) - 01/25/2010 - 21:40

I had still trouble getting this to work.

After i disabled the "deny from all" line the thing worked.

Tried this 2 times to be sure.... if the deny from all is enabled it does not work for me !!

Thanks for the article.
Peter

I have the same problem. Does

by IKW (not verified) - 07/23/2011 - 19:29

I have the same problem. Does commenting out Deny from all pose a security risk though?

Thanks,
IKW

Just wanted to give you

by Jerad Jackson (not verified) - 07/13/2009 - 20:59

Just wanted to give you another thanks -- this helped me as well

 

The proxy.conf worked for

by Rahul Wandile (not verified) - 07/03/2009 - 12:46 
The proxy.conf worked for me,
Just a minor change , 
<Proxy http://IPADDRESS> 
Allow from IPADDRESS

Mention the IPaddress on the Proxy  
Module
Rest same;
Thanks,
Rahul Wandile


<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
  ProxyRequests Off
  <Proxy *>
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from localhost
  </Proxy>
  ProxyVia On
</IfModule>

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/appname/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/appname/

 

thanks too! after 4 days,

by Anonymous (not verified) - 02/17/2009 - 15:29

thanks too!
after 4 days, I'm new to Apache..., and I wanted to proxy forward to my virtual machines apache dedicated to special tasks

Thanks a lot

by Anonymouse (not verified) - 01/27/2009 - 19:45

Thanks a lot

Thanks... this help me a

by Thiago Mata (not verified) - 01/19/2009 - 19:49

Thanks... this help me a lot!

Thanks a bunch :)

by Favio (not verified) - 08/17/2008 - 07:43

Thanks a bunch :)

 Thanks alott, that solved

by Michael Knoth (not verified) - 03/07/2008 - 20:21

 Thanks alott, that solved the problem with Safari Mac OS X 10.5 on localhost. My workarond was to comment # ::1 localhost and # fe80::1%lo0 localhost in /etc/hosts, but now Safari sends 127.0.0.1 as ServerName instead of the crumbled IP ::1, which is kind of fatal when you check for valid IP-Adresses.

 

Thanks!

by Anonymous (not verified) - 01/10/2012 - 23:32

Thanks!

Thanks, this helped me too.

by Anonymous (not verified) - 03/10/2008 - 18:16

Thanks, this helped me too.

Helpful thx a lot! :)

by hip0 (not verified) - 01/15/2013 - 14:57

Helpful thx a lot! :)

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