Squirrelmail apache forbidden page

Question

I am using PHP 7.0.5 and Apache 2.4.20 and I would like to run Squirrelmail.

I am getting a 403 Forbidden error when I try to access any of the squirrelmail pages like HostName/squirrelmail, HostName/squirrelmail/src/login.php or HostName/squirrelmail/src/configtest.php ect.

In my httpd.conf I have:

 Alias /squirrelmail /usr/local/squirrelmail/www
<Directory /usr/local/squirrelmail/www>
  Options None
  AllowOverride None
  DirectoryIndex index.php
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

Most likely cause is a permissions issue on the content. It looks like a Unix/Linux system - what are the filesystem permissions / ACLs and SELinux attributes? — symcbean, Jul 01 '16 at 15:17
The Apache root is /usr/local/apache/htdocs. I am trying to host the content from /usr/local/squirrelmail/www. I will check the access rights of the squirrelmail folders when I'm at work tomorrow. — MortenS, Jul 03 '16 at 13:28
I have changed the permissions of the squirrelmail folder to rwx for user group and others, but it din't solve the problem. When I moved the squirrelmail folder inside the apache/htdocs I could execute the php scripts without any problems. — MortenS, Jul 04 '16 at 13:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '18 at 05:56

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This is due to httpd 2.4 access control has changed from the previous version the solution is as follows

Order allow,deny Allow from all

should be replaced by:

Require all granted

then restart httpd

systemctl restart httpd

answered Mar 13 '18 at 05:56

Pawan Patil

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '18 at 17:14

You must check the log of Apache to solve the problem, in centos 7 the logs will be in tow pathes:

/var/log/httpd/error_log

Or

/var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log

In generally Apache vhost.conf file must contain this lines:

Alias /webmail /usr/share/squirrelmail

<Directory "/usr/share/squirrelmail">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    Require all granted
    AllowOverride none
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
</Directory>

Squirrelmail apache forbidden page

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