Thanks for the info, never really thought about looking at the commonhttpd.conf file, however my problem still occurs...
I guess my question comes down to this.... What are the permission/ownership requirements of DocumentRoot directories??? Cheers, Shannon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache DocumentRoot On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:12:26 +0930 "Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There people, > > I just installed Mandrake 8.2 onto my new server and as part of that > install I installed the default Apache Server > Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer 1.3.23 > > I have tried changing the default DocumentRoot setting to something > other than /var/www however whenever I do this I always get a Forbidden > error when attempting to access the pages in the new DocumentRoot. I > have played around by chmod'ing the new dir to increasingly higher > levels of permissions however the error still appears. > > This not only applies to the default website on this server, but any > Virtual Hosts that I Include in the httpd.conf file through the Include > tag give the same result. > > Can anyone shed some light as to how I would get a new DocumentRoot > setting to function correctly. > > Kind regards, > > Shannon Hmm, I put my virtual hosts info in /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf, and specify document root in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf. What did you chmod your new root folder to? Did you stop and restart httpd? Could you access your site before you changed the root directory? Todd -- Todd Slater I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. (John W. Gardner)
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