[Nottingham] Seriously weird Apache permission problem

[James Gibbon]

Hiya,

I run a webserver here at home, and I'm getting a repeatable,
yet, in another sense, unpredictable problem accessing images
from it.

This example seems to illustrate the problem quite nicely. I
have two identical image files, one a copy of the other, with
identical permissions, in the same directory.

   [root at dino images]# ls -l *lifes*
   -rw-r--r--  1 apache apache 11044 Jun 18 18:13 BAKlifeson.jpg
   -rw-r--r--  1 apache apache 11044 Jun 18 18:42 lifeson.jpg
   [root at dino images]#

Attempting to browse the first of these files gives me the
dreaded "Forbidden" message ("You don't have permission to
access /images/BAKlifeson.jpg on this server") in my browser,
firefox. However I can view the second quite normally.

It's not a browser cache issue, or a browser issue at all: I
get the same behaviour with wget:

   dino:~> wget http://groover.kicks-ass.net/images/BAKlifeson.jpg
   --20:17:47--  http://groover.kicks-ass.net/images/BAKlifeson.jpg
              => `BAKlifeson.jpg'
   Resolving groover.kicks-ass.net... 192.168.2.2
   Connecting to groover.kicks-ass.net[192.168.2.2]:80... connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
   20:17:47 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
   
   dino:~> wget http://groover.kicks-ass.net/images/lifeson.jpg
   --20:17:56--  http://groover.kicks-ass.net/images/lifeson.jpg
              => `lifeson.jpg'
   Resolving groover.kicks-ass.net... 192.168.2.2
   Connecting to groover.kicks-ass.net[192.168.2.2]:80... connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
   Length: 11,044 [image/jpeg]
   
   100%[====================================>] 11,044        --.--K/s             
   
   20:17:56 (47.87 MB/s) - `lifeson.jpg' saved [11,044/11,044]

   dino:~> 

I'm running Apache 2.0.54 under Fedora Core 4.

Anyone seen anything similar, or have any clues? I'm stumped.

James



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