AH01630: client denied by server configuration for files named dhtxxxx.xxx

Question

I can't figure out why apache is throwing this error, all the files in the document root directory can be accessed but I get a forbidden error when I try to access files named dhtxxxx.xxx, if I change the filename to "htmlxgrid_dhx_terrace.css" it works fine.

The document root dir has the require all granted so that's not the problem:

<Directory /path/to/document/root >
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Here's what I see in the logs:

[authz_core:error] [pid XXXX:tid XXXXXXX] [client xx.xx.xx.xx:XXXX] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /path/to/document/root/dhtmlxGrid/skins/dhtmlxgrid_dhx_terrace.css

apachectl -v Server version: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server built: Oct 14 2015 14:20:21

Answer 1

I solved this adding

Require all granted

to my /etc/apache2/site-available/d8.conf

This is a working file for Drupal 8

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName local.d8
    ServerAlias *.local.d8  local.d8.*
    DocumentRoot /home/a/Public/d8
    <Directory /home/a/Public/d8>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/d8_error.log
    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel notice
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/d8_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

I finally found the problem, it was this in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

<Files ~ "^.ht"> Require all denied </Files>

It should be:

<Files ~ "^\.ht"> Require all denied </Files>

It turns out to be a bug in the apache2 chef cookbook that was introduced here: https://github.com/svanzoest-cookbooks/apache2/commit/6cb7d794cdf6fe05e650d17e432e5f5a6a86c8ea

Solution was to downgrade apache2 cookbook to 3.0.1.