Re: [PLUG] Apache w/RedHat 6.2 Access problem

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

> Make sure that the user your webserver is running as (probably the user 
> nobody) has read and execute access to all of the directories up to and
> including the document root (/home/httpd/html in this case).
> 
> chmod 755 /home
> chmod 755 /home/httpd
> chmod -R 755 /home/httpd/html

Oops!  That last chmod won't do what you want.  Try something like:

chmod 755 /home/httpd/html
find /home/httpd/html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

instead.  ymmv

<blush>
oops, that would be bad
</blush>

k

> 
> will usualy do the trick.  If you still get forbidden, check for .htaccess
> files within your document root (which may have access limitations in 
> them) -- of course they only take effect if you have allow override 
> specified for your document root in the main httpd.conf.  If it doesn't
> work, try posting your httpd.conf so we can have a look at it.
> 
> k
> 
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> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Brent R. Matzelle wrote:
> 
> > I just installed RedHat 6.2 (w/Apache 1.3.12) on my new
> > workstation, deleted the default /home/httpd/html directory and
> > untarred my old html directory in its place.  However when I try
> > to view the files through Apache with a browser I get:
> > 
> > ------------------
> > Forbidden
> > 
> > You don't have permission to access / on this server.
> > ------------------
> > 
> > I poured over httpd.conf and didn't find anything out of the
> > ordinary, but I'm hardly an expert.  Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Brent
> > 
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