The problem is not with your browser; it is with th Apache server. It
normally runs as an unprivileged user (sometimes "www"; sometimes "nobody").
Whatever directory you have set in Apache as its DocumentRoot (the directory
it uses when you connect to it without anything after the hostname) has too
restrictive permissions on it.
So ... find the directory ... without any information from you about the
Linux distribution and version you are using, any suggestions from me would
be wild guesses ... and chmod it to 555, its contents to 444, and you should
be set.
At 12:07 PM 3/16/01 -0800, you wrote:
>hi all,
>
>i am a newbie to linux and i have been trying to run
>the apache webserver on a laptop and i am running into
>problems from the start. right now i am not able to
>access the server even from my host computer. i have
>or logged on as root and i have tried opening a
>browser to test the server. i typed http://localhost
>and i get an error message that reads:
>
>Forbidden:
>
>"you do not have permission to access / on this
>server"
>
>the port number is set to the default value of 80.
>
>how do i resolve this problem, please assist.
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