Christopher Sawtell wrote:

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:14, Benjamin Devine wrote:


Patrick Dunford said:


anton wrote:


Hi
I have installed Apache2 and PHP and want to have DOCUMENT_ROOT set to
my a directory in my home folder, so I can write to the thing and
test it at the same time. My idea is then to mirror the entire
directory up to the actual www address, once I am happy with it. I am
also
interested in investigating the running of a web server, so there is
no need to tell me I don't need to run one! It gives me a
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Forbidden


[Hint]



You don't have permission to access / on this server.


[/Hint]
Check Your permissions try on the dir in question .chmod -R 755



Linux systems are set up to allow users to use the directory called /home/user/public_html for the purpose you want.
Some say it's not 100% secure, but it's extremely convenient.
make sure the web-server user can access it. ( chmod )




This is when you type a URL www.myserver.com/~myusername/

But you still have to have access rights to it.

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