TmCrafz's questions

I'm trying to exlude all files of the directory cache/, except some specific files. Beside I want to Backup every other files in my source.

Content of source dir:

backup-test/
├── cache
│   ├── adodb
│   │   ├── .htaccess
│   │   ├── index.html
│   │   ├── test-adodb-1.html
│   │   ├── test-adodb-2.html
│   │   └── test-adodb-3.html
│   ├── .htaccess
│   ├── test-cache-1.html
│   ├── test-cache-2.html
│   └── test-cache-3.html
├── .htaccess
├── test-root-1.html
├── test-root-2.html
└── test-root-3.html

The files in cache/ I want to backup and shouldn't be excluded:

cache/index.html
cache/adodb/.htaccess

My command:

rsync -av --delete \
--include "cache/index.html" \
--include "cache/adodb/.htaccess" \
--exclude "cache/*" \
-e ssh "$SSH_REMOTE":"$BACKUP_SOURCE" "$BACKUP_DEST"

Output:

receiving incremental file list
backup-test/
backup-test/.htaccess
backup-test/test-root-1.html
backup-test/test-root-2.html
backup-test/test-root-3.html
backup-test/cache/

sent 174 bytes  received 431 bytes  1,210.00 bytes/sec
total size is 35  speedup is 0.06

But it's not working as I expect. Rsync only backups an empty cache/ dir, without my included files. What can I do?

I wanted to backup my MySQL database and I accidentally used mysql command instead of mysqldump. So I executed:

/usr/local/mysql5/bin/mysql -u db_username -p db_name > db_backup.sql

Instead of:

/usr/local/mysql5/bin/mysqldump -u db_username -p db_name > db_backup.sql

I was ask for the db password and nothing happened after. The process just didn't react and I had to kill it. Could this have damaged my database?

I have some CORS and preflight problems with my software I can't solve. To test it I was ursing a cors test site to simulate it. When I make an api request to my server application I get the following error:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://example.org/api/articles/2387' from origin 'https://www.test-cors.org' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: It does not have HTTP ok status.

I was adding the follwing code at the end of my .htaccess file, but I still get the same error:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN
Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS"
Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "*, Authorization, authorization"
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
# always return 200 for preflight OPTIONS requests
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} OPTIONS
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [R=200,L]

Also the server is returning "Status Code: 401 Unauthorized". As Request Headers I was adding an authorization header (example string):

Authorization: Basic DJFNCNDJKS7574hdfnDDBHr4593834nfnd=

But it's the right authorization, because I tested the exact same header locally with curl several times (without cross origin) and I always get the requested data. Any idea what's going on here and how I can solve it?

Edit: I got it to work. I placed the additional htaccess content at the end of the file first. Since I added it at the beginning of the file its working.

I want to deny the access to all files and subdirectories in a given folder via .htaccess. I found this two methods:

deny from all

<Files "*">
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Files> 

Is there any difference between this two?

I have the following structure:

_auth/
   ->.htpasswd
website1/
website2/
website3/
.htaccess

I want to add a AuthType Basic to my .htaccess in root directory, so that webiste1/ and website2/ require authentification and website3/ should be still accessible without. All three websites have there own domain.

I tried:

<directory "/website1">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
AuthUserFile "_auth/.htpasswd"
Require valid-user
</directory>

<directory "/website2">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
AuthUserFile "_auth/.htpasswd"
Require valid-user
</directory>

But its not working

Im using a plugin for one of my websites which I have updated recently. Since I have updated I get always an access denied message (Error 403) when opening magnalister.php of the plugin. When I replace the new .htaccess file with the old one I have no problems. Here are the content of the files:

Before updating:

<Files magnalister.php>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Allow from all
</Files>

<Files magnaCallback.php>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Allow from all
</Files>

After updating:

<Files magnalister.php>
    <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
        Order Deny,Allow
        Allow from all
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
        Require all granted
    </IfModule>
</Files>
<Files magnaCallback.php>
    <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
        Order Deny,Allow
        Allow from all
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
        Require all granted
    </IfModule>
</Files>

In the PHP error log I get the following:

[Wed Sep 12 00:25:05 2018] [access_compat:error] [pid 7437] [client ***] [host ***] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /is/htdocs/***/www/testshop3/plugins/magnalister/magnalister.php

Im using Apache/2.4.10.

What is the reason for the 403 error with the updated version?