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Can't POST with PHP to webapp in Apache/Tomcat, 403 Forbidden error
Ok, I've got a config problem that has stymied me. The crazy thing is I had the same setup, just moved to a new server machine.

There is an internal database and web application in Java running on Tomcat through Apache httpd. Then there is the web site on another server which uses PHP. The web site connects to this internal stuff in a couple ways, one of which is just basically POSTing data to a JSP which does the work and returns some XML to the web server for output.

Now I installed everything fresh on the new server and got everything working except that I cannot get PHP to post to JSPs like I did before. To debug, I created a PHP file that only did the POST to narrow things down. After debugging, I found I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error - You don't have permission to access /web_connect/web_submit_test.jsp on this server. In the Apache error log is
Code:
[Mon Aug 02 18:41:38 2010] [error] [client xxxxxxxxx] client denied by server configuration: web_submit_test.jsp
It's strange because when I put the URL directly into my browser, it works fine - it submits a little data, gets back a little xml, that all works. That means it's nothing related to Tomcat. But it doesn't work through my PHP code - which had been working just fine for months on the other server.

The Forbidden error makes me check my Apache httpd.conf and httpd-ssl.conf files. I didn't see any difference in allowing or denying. I'm actually not denying anything. Here is the part of httpd-ssl.conf in question:

Code:
<VirtualHost _default_:443>

# General setup for the virtual host
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"
ServerName xxxxx.xxxxxxx.com:443
ServerAdmin xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.com
ErrorLog "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/logs/error.log"
TransferLog "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/logs/access.log"

<Location /web_connect>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
JkMount /web_connect worker1
JkMount /web_connect/* worker1
...
</VirtualHost>
Note the document root isn't used at all. The web_connect is a Tomcat webapp.

The PHP file I'm using to test is:

Code:
<?php
$fp = fsockopen("ssl://xxxx.xxxxxx.com", 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
$out = "POST /web_connect/web_submit_test.jsp?input1=blahblah1&input2=blahblah2 HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.com\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";//extra line required here
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
}
?>
I'm pulling my hair out here so any help is appreciated!
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