Re: Wget gives 403 (forbidden) on RHEL3 default page

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:15:37PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> To my surprise I see that "wget" (and also the Nagios check_http
> plugin, not using "wget" AFAIK) gives a 403 (forbidden) error
> when accessing the default page (http://localhost/) of a freshly
> installed RHEL3 system.
> 
> But any web browser I tried (including "links") and also "curl"
> work fine with the default (welcome) page!
> 
> Confused... what is causing this difference in behavior?

They're both right.  The way it works is that if you have no index,
you'll generate a 403.  The test page is simply a custom error page for
this message.

Check /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome and you'll see where the "magic" takes
place.

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