I made a change in the blogger configuration to ease the later work when blogging. It is possible that older entries are not correctly formatted.
Well I learned something about the GDM configuration by reading the well written gnome gdm manual. However, that did not solve my Gnome cofiguration problems.
But at least I know a little bit more how to configure the user screen and put useful on it through the use of an Xwilling script.
One of the apache rule for the resolution of API seems to be that addresses of request cannot be numeric.
I commented the rule out... But I should take a look whether there is no better solution.
To find the rule posing the problem I looked at the logs in: /etc/httpd/logs/error_log.
There was a line:
[Fri May 09 02:09:51 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.x.xxx] ModSecurity: Access denied with code 400 (phase 2). Pattern match "^[\\\\d\\\\.]+$" at REQUEST_HEADERS:Host. [id "960017"] [msg "Host header is a numeric IP address"] [severity "CRITICAL"] [hostname "xxx.xxx.x.xxx"] [uri "/ajaxmp"] [unique_id "BFUWMX8AAAEAAA8ewlgAAAAC"]
I then did a grep:
$> grep 960017 /etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/*.conf /etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/modsecurity_crs_21_protocol_anomalies.conf:SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:Host "^[\d\.]+$" "deny,log,auditlog,status:400,msg:'Host header is a numeric IP address', severity:'2',id:'960017'"I had found the rule causing the problem and commented it out. I hope there is a beeter solution, perhaps a better rule ???