Mantis package bombs

[Todd Zullinger]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> 2) Apache rules use "Allow from localhost", but seem to fail with
>> the default hosts file that specifies localhost.localdomain as the
>> canonical hostname.  Using allow from 127.0.0.1 worked out better
>> for me, and seems to be what the other web app packages I have
>> installed use. 
> 
> I'm not a user of Mantis, but I do use Apache a lot.  I've never had
> any problems with it using "localhost".  The normal /etc/hosts file
> lists the Linuxism "localhost.localdomain" and has the standard
> 'localhost" as an alias, that's good enough for Apache.  You'd have
> to have some real name resolution problems for that to fail.

I'm not sure what I've got wrong then.  If I change /etc/hosts to:

127.0.0.1      localhost localhost.localdomain

it works.  If localhost.localdomain is the canonical name in
/etc/hosts, I get denied.

I added a localhost.localdomain zone to my local DNS and things still
wouldn't work.  (I'd previously only had a localhost zone.)

Commenting out the localhost entry in /etc/hosts didn't work either.

Care to test this out and let me know if it's just me (and Charles)
with this problem?  I created /etc/httpd/conf.d/test.conf with the
following content:

Alias /tmp /tmp

<Directory /tmp>
    Options Indexes
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    #Allow from 127.0.0.1
    #Allow from localhost
    #Allow from localhost.
    #Allow from localhost.localdomain
</Directory>

In /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost

I am able to browse to http://localhost/tmp/ with either the 127.0.0.1
or localhost.localdomain allow lines uncommented.  Neither the
localhost nor localhost. allowed me to access the URL.

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