After I sent off that email, I was searching through the commonapache2.conf file trying to figure what the problem was and I found the following
### This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. ### <Directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs> Made the change and everything works perfectly :-) > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:17:27 -0500 > Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, I have upgraded to the latest version of apache and now I get >> the following error.. >> >> Forbidden >> You don't have permission to access / on this server. >> >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> If I change the www directory to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ then it >> works but when I have my virtual server set to /home/httpd/htdocs/ it >> doesn't work even if I set permissions for apache as a group and user >> for all directories. > > # nano /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf > > Find all references to '/var/www/localhost' and replace them by > '/home/httpd' > > Reading the chapter about directory-directives in the apache-docs might > also > help --> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#directory > > Greetings, Dennis > > P.S.: If you use apache-1.3x then you'll have to edit a different file, > but the > reason for your problem is the same. Try to interpolate :) > > -- > Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED > Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
