Re: [cobalt-users] .htaccess and recursive error documentstatement

[Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:03 AM 9/18/01, Manuel Schmitt wrote:
>    [Sat Sep 15 20:35:18 2001] [error] [client 212.123.122.7] client denied
>     by server configuration: /home/sites/site54/web/.html
>
> This error message was only there for this one site, even if other sites had
> also visitors at the same time. I think this one site did cause the
> problems, but I can't understand this strange path at the end of the line.
> There is no file or directory like this.

This error is caused by Apache denying requests to filenames starting with 
".ht", which prevents users from downloading .htaccess and .htpasswd 
files.  For some reason, requests are coming in for that file.

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