On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:27:32AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> 1. making a symlink /var/www/lcalhost/htdocs/distfiles to point to
> /usr/portage/distfiles

See 'FollowSymLinks': http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html.en#options

> 2. adding 
> Alias /distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles 
> to my apache config and restarting apache (after deleting the symlink)

> Both result in 403 "Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /distfiles/ on this server." errors.

> where to from here? 

What user is httpd running as?  What are the permissions on
/usr/portage/distfiles?

-mjg
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