Always says 403 Forbidden

[mike8706]

I dont know what I'm doing wrong. I made a new directory and put an index.html file in it. And put the correct information in the apache conf file. But it still says Forbidden in my browser! Please help me.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by mike8706
I dont know what I'm doing wrong. I made a new directory and put an index.html file in it. And put the correct information in the apache conf file. But it still says Forbidden in my browser! Please help me.

Are your permissions set correctly on the folder for your user profile?

[bdl]

Where is the directory? What are the permissions on the directory and on the index.html file? For example, if you have a newly created directory, it must have at least '555' permissions (r_xr_xr_x) in order to allow everyone to execute / read the directory. The ideal perms would be '755' (rwxr_xr_x) for all directories under your own web htdoc structure. The file must also have a minimum '444' (r__r__r__) permissions, so that everyone can read the file. Again, the ideal would be '644' (rw_r__r__) for any files you have under any given directory.

[mike8706]

I changed the permissions and changed the group and user ownership to apache, but it doesn't work.:confused:

I put it in the /var/www/linux directory.

[bdl]

Ok, so can you see files under /var/www? What info did you put in the apache config file? Are you trying to use linux as a virtual host or simply a subdir under the root directory? Does your 'DirectoryIndex' show 'index.html' as a valid index file?

[mike8706]

Where in the conf file do I put the DirectoryIndex? I'm not running any virtual servers. Just the main server.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by mike8706
I changed the permissions and changed the group and user ownership to apache, but it doesn't work.:confused:

I put it in the /var/www/linux directory.

How about the file your trying to access?

[mike8706]

Yep, I changed it when I changed the directory. Should the user name be apache?

[bdl]

Well, the username / group shouldn't necessarily be 'apache', it would probably more likely just be the 'root' user. Take a look at the ownership on the other files under /var/www.

Search the httpd.conf file for 'DirectoryIndex' and you'll see a listing somewhat similar to this:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm
</IfModule>

You'll note my config allows for three different index file types.

[mike8706]

That section isn't in mine.

[mike8706]

Sorry, sleep is calling. Please post what ever you think is helpful.

Later

[bdl]

Originally posted by mike8706
That section isn't in mine.

Odd, every httpd.conf file should have 'DirectoryIndex' in it. What distro / apache version are you using?

[mike8706]

Apache 1.3.23 on mandrake 8.2