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Shawn Northrop
Asked: 2015-01-30 12:17:00 +0800 CST

Apache 403 Error after several successful requests

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I am experiencing some odd behavior with Apache. I have several vhosts setup on my local machine. I am currently experiencing this on 1 of the vhosts, as I am doing dev work constantly, however I think it happened on another local site as well.

Here's whats happening:

I go to nekst.local and the page loads fine. I refresh the page constantly to check my updated code. All of a sudden I get a 403 error in the console for all assets but the page loads (minus assets). If I refresh again I get a 403 error in browser rather than a page load. If I restart apache everything works for a while and then all of a sudden it happens again.

I did recently download xdebug and add that to my php.ini. I'm not sure if this may be causing any issues.

I am running apache 2.4.9, php 5.5.14 on osx yosemite

my vhost:

<Directory "/Users/shawn/Documents/work/sites/mindbox/nekst/webapp/web">
   Require all granted
   AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/shawn/Documents/work/sites/mindbox/nekst/webapp/web"
    ServerName nekst.local
    ErrorLog "/Users/shawn/Documents/work/sites/mindbox/nekst/webapp/app/logs/error_log"
    CustomLog "/Users/shawn/Documents/work/sites/mindbox/nekst/webapp/app/logs/access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

and my dir:

drwxr-xr-x  15 shawn  staff     510 Jan 27 10:25 web
apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Have you tried looking into your error log for more details?

    I always run the following command while developing PHP, to be aware of any notices. It may also help you narrow down this issue:

    tail --follow=name -n 100 /Users/shawn/Documents/work/sites/mindbox/nekst/webapp/app/logs/error_log

    Ctrl-C when done

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  2. Do you have mod_evasive enabled in apache? I had the same kind of problem and after disabling it, the problem was gone. See here for a guide to tweak values for mod_evasive: http://www.faqforge.com/linux/prevent-dos-attacks-on-apache-webserver-for-debian-linux-with-mod_evasive/

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