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apache allowing only localhost by IP returns error 301

I’m trying just to allow access to a web server from the localhost only. This is a fresh CentOS 7 installation with apache 2.4.6.

I created a basic web:

[root@server2 ~]# cat /var/www/html/secret/index.html
my password
[root@server2 ~]#

Then, the virtualhost and directory as official documentation for apache 2.4+ (192.168.1.10 it’s the server IP and I have 192.168.1.10 serverX.example.com in the /etc/hosts):

[root@server2 ~]# cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/varios.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/secret
    ServerName serverX.example.com
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "/var/www/html/secret">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Require ip 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.10
</Directory>
[root@server2 ~]#

Everything should work, but:

[root@server2 ~]# curl serverX.example.com/secret
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /secret
on this server.</p>
</body></html>
[root@server2 ~]#

Any idea?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    It was necesary to add one / at the end:

    curl serverX.example.com/secret/

    With firefox works fine, but with curl or elinks, no.

    Best regards.


  2. 0

    To make the virtual host accessible to localhost only, you can bind it to the ip address 127.0.0.1.

    <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/secret
    ServerName serverX.example.com
</VirtualHost>

    In /etc/hosts you can use 127.0.0.1 serverX.example.com instead.

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