Folks, I'm having some troubles setting up Apache on a newly installed Gentoo system. I think it is configured and running correctly, but when I try to access a web page from a networked machine I get:
****************************************************** Forbidden You don't have permission to access /BURPS.html on this server. --------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.27 Server at spyder.condonia.org Port 80 ****************************************************** This happens with both accessing via name and IP address. BURPS.html is proper HTML (currently running on another server and available on the web) and located in /web/site.burps/htdocs and has permissions 544 (-rw-r--r--). The directories above it all have permissions 755 (drwxr-xr-x). The config file ( /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf ) contains the following relevant info: User webuser Group webgroup ServerName spyder.condonia.org DocumentRoot /web/site.burps/htdocs No other changes have been made to the default config file. Both webuser and webgroup have been created. Testing the config looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: apachectl configtest Syntax OK I have the same configuration file (copied) in /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf /etc/apache/conf/httpd.conf /web/site.burps/conf/apache.conf I suppose for thoroughness I should also copy it into /web/site.burps/conf/httpd.conf but I haven't gotten around to trying that, yet. I have the 3rd Edition (2003 copyright) of the O'Reilly book "Apache: The Definitive Guide" and am trying to understand the instructions. However, as best I can tell the Gentoo install of Apache (1.3.27) seems to have changed things a bit from both the book and the Apache.org website documentation. For instance: 1) 'apache' is the command, not 'httpd' (as is used in the documentation) 2) /etc/apache is the root system, not /etc/httpd These changes lead me to wonder what I am doing wrong when I try to configure things. Should my config file be apache.conf or httpd.conf (as all the documentation says)? Do I still put things into the htdocs subdirectory? Or should that be renamed, too? Does anyone have a clue you can loan me about why the permission is denied? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Plain Text Emails Don't Pass Viruses! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
