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403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

Hi All,

I have apache 2.0 installed in redhat linux 9.0.
I have my perl code residing under cgi-bin in the same server.

When i try and invoke my perl script, it tells me

403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

Please tell what the issue is?

Regards,
Lakshmi

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Hi,

check the file permissions also.....

find -type f | xargs chmod 644
find -type d | xargs chmod 755

The problem here is that none of the files or directories were readable by anyone other than the user who created them.

R.K

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So, please look at your error log file to know from which file the permission problem is :)

(Usually the error log file is in your /var/log/httpd dir)

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