tag:forums.movabletype.org,2011://24/tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723- 2011-09-01T02:26:40Z Comments for <![CDATA[Installing fresh 4.23, "403 forbidden" after user details]]> Movable Type 4.292 tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723 2008-12-12T13:49:16Z 2009-01-09T04:44:59Z Installing fresh 4.23, "403 forbidden" after user details I’ve just installed MT 4.23 and get quite far through the wizard. It lets me type in the config details and setup the first user, but when clicking next, it says the usual “You don’t have permission to access /cgi-bin/mt/mt-upgrade.cgi... Thomas Edwards http://thomasedwards.co.uk I’ve just installed MT 4.23 and get quite far through the wizard. It lets me type in the config details and setup the first user, but when clicking next, it says the usual “You don’t have permission to access /cgi-bin/mt/mt-upgrade.cgi on this server.”

Any ideas?

Running on Linux

]]> tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15223 Comment from Thomas Edwards on 2008-12-12 Thomas Edwards The last screen I see is the "Create Your First Blog" screen, then press "Finish install".

]]> 2008-12-12T13:51:46Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15265 Comment from Rob Kenny on 2008-12-13 Rob Kenny Do you know if your server is running SELinux?
http://budgibson.com/home/archives/2007/08/installing-movabletype-4-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux-5.shtml

]]> 2008-12-13T13:52:32Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15898 Comment from Wireghoul on 2009-01-06 Wireghoul Check the chmod of the files and all parent directories and or SELinux configuration as mentioned earlier

]]> 2009-01-07T00:57:41Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15904 Comment from Thomas Edwards on 2009-01-07 Thomas Edwards Thanks for the replies and your help guys, appreciated.

I am not using SELinux. I made sure all the permissions were correct, all the way to the top, but it is still having the same problem. Over the last few years I've installed Movable Type a few times now, and this always happens. I can't figure it out, it seems completely logical and I followed a set of instructions (although each set I read, even from Movable Type is different) and it just never works.

This is so infuriating.

Any other ideas, other than sitting here staring at CHMOD boxes?

]]> 2009-01-07T15:03:44Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15910 Comment from Mike T on 2009-01-07 Mike T Whose version of Linux are you using?

]]> 2009-01-07T17:03:54Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15912 Comment from Thomas Edwards on 2009-01-07 Thomas Edwards Thanks for replying Mike.

I am using CentOS 4.7.

]]> 2009-01-07T17:13:57Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15914 Comment from Mike T on 2009-01-07 Mike T Hmmm, are you sure that you don't actually have SELinux up and running? It's a default on RHEL, and CentOS is directly based on RHEL. Other than that, I don't know what to say other than 403 issues are Apache-related (obviously) and that's your best bet for looking.

On a related subject, unless they actually fixed it in 4.7, there is a long-standing, very, very serious performance bug in RHEL and CentOS' version of Perl. You might want to try the Linux version of XAMPP or look into either SuSE or Ubuntu Server if you can't get all of this resolved on CentOS.

]]> 2009-01-07T17:36:45Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15916 Comment from Mike T on 2009-01-07 Mike T Seems they fixed that Perl bug, at least for CentOS 5 and RHEL 5.

]]> 2009-01-07T17:37:49Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2008://24.11723-comment:15986 Comment from Wireghoul on 2009-01-08 Wireghoul It would seem to me that something fails to write the index page and the web server having options indexes off. Which will result in a 403 error at the webroot of the blog. I assume the cgis still work.
If chmods are correct, are they correct for the right user? Care to share? What does the web server log for the 403 error?

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