Error 403 Forbidden - Webserver

[grezmel]

Hi All,

1st post, so hello everyone

ive run into a bit of a problem, for some reason my website hosted on my pi has started displaying Error 403 Forbidden when external user try and access the site. I can access it via the URL from home without any issues.

It worked fine previously (I havent changed anything).

the URL is www.grahammelbournephotography.com and im also using no-ip.com to direct etc.

Any ideas ?

thanks in advance

[SonOfAMotherlessGoat]

Do you intend for the website to redirect to the /UI directory instead of loading an index.html?

[grezmel]

Hmm not sure why it would be redirecting to the /UI directory as I hadn't changed anything. Please can you point me in the right direction as to where to change this as it works fine when I access the index.html from the same network.......

[Laurens-wuyts]

Are you sure the internal IP address of your raspberry pi isn't changed?

Laurens

[grezmel]

Hi, I access the raspberry using the same ip as always.

[DougieLawson]

I'd start by looking at your router. Is the port forwarding done right?

This is what your system sent to me

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root@aplus /tmp # wget --server-response http://www.grahammelbournephotography.com/
--2016-01-04 11:16:24--  http://www.grahammelbournephotography.com/
Resolving www.grahammelbournephotography.com (www.grahammelbournephotography.com)... 2.127.21.102
Connecting to www.grahammelbournephotography.com (www.grahammelbournephotography.com)|2.127.21.102|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:16:29 GMT
  Server: Apache
  Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:27:21 GMT
  ETag: "e1-521ffc222f040"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Length: 225
  Vary: Accept-Encoding
  Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: text/html
  Content-Language: en
Length: 225 [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

index.html          100%[=====================>]     225  --.-KB/s   in 0s

2016-01-04 11:16:24 (2.59 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [225/225]

Can you run wget --server-response http://pi.local on your system because I suspect that page is being served by your router.
Can you take a look in your /var/log/apache2/* logs there should be a hit from "80.xx9.xx2.243" if my request got through to your raspberry pi. Something like

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www.grahammelbournephotography.com:80 80.xx9.xx2.243 - - [04/Jan/2016:11:20:45 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1151 "-" "Wget/1.16 (linux-gnueabihf)"

[grezmel]

Thanks for your reply - there is no record for .243 in my log file and running wget --server-response http://pi.local I get the following:
Resolving pi.local (pi.local)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `pi.local'

[DougieLawson]

By pi.local I meant whatever your LAN IP address is for your RPi. I run the avahi-daemon so can use http://pi.local

[grezmel]

thanks for your help :

Connecting to 192.168.0.19:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:24:01 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)
Last-Modified: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:23:28 GMT
ETag: "476b3-2dac-51ac5d16f0a45"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 11692
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
Length: 11692 (11K) [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'

100%[======================================>] 11,692 --.-K/s in 0.001s

2016-01-04 13:24:01 (15.2 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [11692/11692]

[DougieLawson]

The public side sent this

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Server: Apache

your local system sent this

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Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)

so my theory is proven, your router/switch isn't doing the port forwarding stuff for port 80 on your public interface.

[grezmel]

hmmm, i wonder why it has changed though I has havent made any changes to the router or pi

[DougieLawson]

Have you checked that 2.127.21.102 is your current public IP address?

curl -s http://httpbin.org/ip

[hello world :-)]

Try changing the file/folder's owner to www-data . That helped me. The downside to this is that they won't belong to the Pi user anymore, so you won't be able to edit them if you're not logged in as root...

[grezmel]

Ive been trying to get this resolved for a while now on and off and I think I know what has caused the issue. I purchased a WD Mycloud drive which I think is probably conflicting with the Raspberry. Just need to work out how to resolve