The DocumentRoot option has its default value
"/home/httpd/html"\. i am using apache version 1.3
that comes with redhat linux 6.2. I have no idea about
how and where to issue that chmod command, please
assist
--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me
> the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski
> -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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