On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:45:52 +0930
"Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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

I'm not sure the bare minimum, but 755 would work. Also, make sure you
don't have a firewall blocking your http port.

Todd


> 
> -----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

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