Responding When Access Is Denied; Limiting Access To Areas Of Your Server - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 04-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

From the Administration Server, you could create and turn on access control for a
specific server instance and leave it off (which is the default) for other servers. For
example, you could deny all access to the Server Manager pages from the
Administration Server. With distributed administration on and access control off
by default for any other servers, administrators could still access and configure the
other servers, but they cannot configure the Administration Server.
NOTE

Responding When Access is Denied

Enterprise Server provides the following default message when access is denied:
"FORBIDDEN. Your client is not allowed access to the restricted object." You can
choose a different response when denied access. You can also create a different
message for each access control object.
To change the message sent for a particular ACL, perform the following steps:
Click the Response when denied link in the ACL page.
1.
Check Respond with the following file in the lower frame.
2.
Enter the path to the absolute URL or a relative URI and click update.
3.
Make sure users have access to the URL or URI they are redirected to.
Click Update.
4.
Click Submit in the top frame to submit the access control rule.
5.

Limiting Access to Areas of Your Server

This section describes some commonly used access restrictions to a web server and
its contents. The steps for each procedure detail the specific actions you need to
take; however, you will still need to complete all of the steps described under
"Setting Access Control for a Server Instance," on page 178.
This access control is in addition to the user being in the
administrators group set for distributed administration. The
Administration Server first checks that a user (other than
superuser) is in the administrators group, and then evaluates the
access control rules.
Limiting Access to Areas of Your Server
Chapter 8 Controlling Access to Your Server 189