title: Apache Refusing Connections
body: <p>I've recently installed Apache on my FreeBSD machine. All was working fine; telnet via the local machine and http through Firefox on my XP box (connected via my DSL router) were garnering the "It works!" page. Then, I restarted my BSD machine and now neither telnet (through both su and my normal account) nor Firefox are allowed connections--I keep get 403 errors for both. I've checked permissions and gone through the httpd.conf many times but I can't figure this out. My httpd.conf file is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ServerRoot "/usr/local"
  
  Listen 80
  
  LoadModule authn_file_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_file.so
  LoadModule authn_dbm_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_dbm.so
  LoadModule authn_anon_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_anon.so
  LoadModule authn_default_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_default.so
  LoadModule authn_alias_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_alias.so
  LoadModule authz_host_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_host.so
  LoadModule authz_groupfile_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_groupfile.so
  LoadModule authz_user_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_user.so
  LoadModule authz_dbm_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_dbm.so
  LoadModule authz_owner_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_owner.so
  LoadModule authz_default_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_default.so
  LoadModule auth_basic_module libexec/apache22/mod_auth_basic.so
  LoadModule auth_digest_module libexec/apache22/mod_auth_digest.so
  LoadModule file_cache_module libexec/apache22/mod_file_cache.so
  LoadModule cache_module libexec/apache22/mod_cache.so
  LoadModule disk_cache_module libexec/apache22/mod_disk_cache.so
  LoadModule dumpio_module libexec/apache22/mod_dumpio.so
  LoadModule include_module libexec/apache22/mod_include.so
  LoadModule filter_module libexec/apache22/mod_filter.so
  LoadModule charset_lite_module libexec/apache22/mod_charset_lite.so
  LoadModule deflate_module libexec/apache22/mod_deflate.so
  LoadModule log_config_module libexec/apache22/mod_log_config.so
  LoadModule logio_module libexec/apache22/mod_logio.so
  LoadModule env_module libexec/apache22/mod_env.so
  LoadModule mime_magic_module libexec/apache22/mod_mime_magic.so
  LoadModule cern_meta_module libexec/apache22/mod_cern_meta.so
  LoadModule expires_module libexec/apache22/mod_expires.so
  LoadModule headers_module libexec/apache22/mod_headers.so
  LoadModule usertrack_module libexec/apache22/mod_usertrack.so
  LoadModule unique_id_module libexec/apache22/mod_unique_id.so
  LoadModule setenvif_module libexec/apache22/mod_setenvif.so
  LoadModule version_module libexec/apache22/mod_version.so
  LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache22/mod_ssl.so
  LoadModule mime_module libexec/apache22/mod_mime.so
  LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache22/mod_dav.so
  LoadModule status_module libexec/apache22/mod_status.so
  LoadModule autoindex_module libexec/apache22/mod_autoindex.so
  LoadModule asis_module libexec/apache22/mod_asis.so
  LoadModule info_module libexec/apache22/mod_info.so
  LoadModule cgi_module libexec/apache22/mod_cgi.so
  LoadModule dav_fs_module libexec/apache22/mod_dav_fs.so
  LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache22/mod_vhost_alias.so
  LoadModule negotiation_module libexec/apache22/mod_negotiation.so
  LoadModule dir_module libexec/apache22/mod_dir.so
  LoadModule imagemap_module libexec/apache22/mod_imagemap.so
  LoadModule actions_module libexec/apache22/mod_actions.so
  LoadModule speling_module libexec/apache22/mod_speling.so
  LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache22/mod_userdir.so
  LoadModule alias_module libexec/apache22/mod_alias.so
  LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache22/mod_rewrite.so
  
  &lt;IfModule !mpm_netware_module&gt;
  &lt;IfModule !mpm_winnt_module&gt;
  
  User www
  Group www
  
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  ServerAdmin gvkv@gvCorp.com
  
  ServerName 192.168.2.12:80
  
  DocumentRoot /home/prosperity/html
  
  &lt;Directory /&gt;
      AllowOverride None
      Order deny,allow
      Deny from all
  &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
  &lt;Directory /home/prosperity/html&gt;
  
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  
      AllowOverride None
  
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
  
  &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
  &lt;IfModule dir_module&gt;
      DirectoryIndex index.html
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  &lt;FilesMatch "^\.ht"&gt;
      Order allow,deny
      Deny from all
      Satisfy All
  &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  
  ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd-error.log"
  
  LogLevel warn
  
  &lt;IfModule log_config_module&gt;
  
      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %&gt;s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %&gt;s %b" common
  
      &lt;IfModule logio_module&gt;
        # You need to enable mod_logio.c to use %I and %O
        LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %&gt;s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
      &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
      CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log" combined
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  &lt;IfModule alias_module&gt;
  
      ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/www/apache22/cgi-bin/"
  
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  &lt;IfModule cgid_module&gt;
  
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  &lt;Directory "/usr/local/www/apache22/cgi-bin"&gt;
      AllowOverride None
      Options None
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
  &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
  DefaultType text/plain
  
  &lt;IfModule mime_module&gt;
  
      TypesConfig etc/apache22/mime.types
  
      AddType application/x-compress .Z
      AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
  
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  &lt;IfModule ssl_module&gt;
  SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
  SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  Include etc/apache22/Includes/*.conf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>EDIT: Chris asked for some log file data so here it is.</p>
  
  <p>First, httpd-error.log</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Sun Apr 19 22:37:35 2009] [notice] Digest: done
  [Sun Apr 19 22:37:36 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8e DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations
  [Mon Apr 20 00:00:28 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
  [Mon Apr 20 00:01:18 2009] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
  [Mon Apr 20 00:01:19 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
  [Mon Apr 20 00:01:19 2009] [notice] Digest: done
  [Mon Apr 20 00:01:20 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8e DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations
  [Mon Apr 20 00:01:26 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.10] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
  [Mon Apr 20 00:01:54 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
  [Mon Apr 20 00:02:12 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] (13)Permission denied: access to /home/prosperity/html/index.html denied
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Second, httpd-access.log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>192.168.2.12 - - [19/Apr/2009:21:31:40 -0400] "GET / " 403 202 "-" "-"
  192.168.2.10 - - [19/Apr/2009:21:51:07 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
  192.168.2.12 - - [19/Apr/2009:22:00:29 -0400] "GET / " 403 202 "-" "-"
  192.168.2.12 - - [19/Apr/2009:22:00:54 -0400] "GET /home/prosperity/test.html" 403 227 "-" "-"
  192.168.2.12 - - [19/Apr/2009:22:01:13 -0400] "GET /home/prosperity/index.html" 403 228 "-" "-"
  127.0.0.1 - - [19/Apr/2009:22:07:00 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 202 "-" "-"
  192.168.2.12 - - [19/Apr/2009:22:13:12 -0400] "GET /home/prosperity/html/test.html" 403 232 "-" "-"
  192.168.2.10 - - [20/Apr/2009:00:01:26 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
  192.168.2.12 - - [20/Apr/2009:00:01:54 -0400] "GET /" 403 202 "-" "-"
  192.168.2.12 - - [20/Apr/2009:00:02:12 -0400] "GET /home/prosperity/html/index.html" 403 233 "-" "-"
  </code></pre>