Brent R. Matzelle on Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:07:03 -0400 (EDT)


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


I tried all of that to no avail :(  Could there be an Apache configuration
problem that could cause this?

Brent

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > 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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