Htaccesstest.txt errors in logfiles

anon30676603 · July 14, 2016, 11:54am

Problem
In your logfiles, you get errors like this:

[Fri Mar 07 11:35:28 2014] [error] [client 192.168.0.2] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/data/htaccesstest.txt

2013-12-19 18:42:39 ::1 GET /data/htaccesstest.txt - 80 - ::1 - 404 0 2 2

6444#0: *11 access forbidden by rule, client: 192.168.0.30, server: , request: "
GET /data/htaccesstest.txt HTTP/1.0", host: "192.168.0.30:XXXX"

Solution
Just ignore these errors. They are a byproduct of a check ownCloud needs to perform to make sure your data is secured.

Details
The request to the htaccesstest.txt is us used to check if your /data folder is protected correctly to not allow direct access to files in it. For this test the following function is used:

github.com

owncloud/core/blob/v6.0.2/lib/private/util.php

<?php

/**
 * Class for utility functions
 *
 */

class OC_Util {
	public static $scripts=array();
	public static $styles=array();
	public static $headers=array();
	private static $rootMounted=false;
	private static $fsSetup=false;
	public static $coreStyles=array();
	public static $coreScripts=array();

	/**
	 * @brief Can be set up
	 * @param string $user
	 * @return boolean

This file has been truncated. show original