Re: 'don't have permission to access" of mediwiki1.7 with apache2

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Jeff Zhang wrote:
> I've installed apach2 and mediwiki1.7 under sid, which works well before I
> remembered. However, It stopped to work some times ago. And it seems it
> didn't support Alias with proper authority.
> 
> http://localhost/mediawiki/ gives the message:
> 
> You don't have permission to access /mediawiki/ on this server.
> ------------------------------
> Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3 mod_python/3.2.10 Python/2.4.4
> PHP/5.2.0-10 mod_ruby/1.2.6 Ruby/1.8.6(2007-03-13) mod_perl/2.0.2
> Perl/v5.8.8 Server at localhost Port 80
> and <? phpInfo(); ?> says "Virtual Directory Support disabled ".
> 
> So, is the question due to  "Virtual Directory Support" and is there a
> package of apache2 will enable it ?
> 

Did you install MediaWiki from a package, or did you download the tarball from
the MediaWiki website and install it? If you install from tarball, the installer
will indicate where there might be permissions or other problems. Eg
LocalSettings.php should be owned by www-data.

I have MediaWiki running happily on Etch using Apache2 with Virtual Directory
Support disabled.

HTH,

-- 
Chris.