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I am trying to download a file using curl from a machine running apache2. My site (000-default) configuration looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /home/user/files/
    <Directory /home/user/files/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

From another machine on the same network I do:

curl http://my-share/sample.text -o "test.txt"

I then get:

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   301  100   301    0     0   4198      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  4239

but if I cat the content of the file is contains:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /sample.textconfig
on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at my-share Port 80</address>
</body></html>

I can ssh to the my-share debian server just fine. Why can't I access the file, is it a firewall issue?

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In the log it just says: File does not exist: /var/www/sample.text . So is the solution to give the www-data user access to the /home/user/files folder somehow? –  u123 2 hours ago

Did I read it correctly? Apache is reading from /var/www directory and you want to serve your files from /home/user/files? You may want to recheck your Apache config if that's true.

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My guess would be that your apache user (normally something like www-data) does not have read access to the file /home/user/files/sample.text or to one of the parent directories.

Having a look at the error log of apache would help you pinpoint the issue you are facing.

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  • In the log it just says: File does not exist: /var/www/sample.text . So is the solution to give the www-data user access to the /home/user/files folder somehow?
    – u123
    Jan 28, 2014 at 1:03
  • the path /var/www/sample.text tells me that instead of your virtualhost, the default site is being used. Try adding the "ServerName my-share" directive to force your virtualhost to be used.
    – user76776
    Jan 28, 2014 at 14:07
  • I have tried to copy the files to /var/www and change to read/write permissions. I can now access them in the browser e.g 'my-share/sample.text' but using curl (on the same client machine) still gives the "You don't have permission to access" xml file. So maybe its not an apache2 problem but instead a curl problem.
    – u123
    Jan 28, 2014 at 14:49
  • What do the logs say for the requests that you do using curl?
    – user76776
    Jan 28, 2014 at 15:20

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