Thanks for the info, I had checked on this earlier as I came across this post in the archives, but all the directories were already set up with the correct permissions. What I needed was the info supplied in the other response to my question. Thanks for your time though, its greatly appreciated.
-Nick On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 13:41, Denise Mangano wrote: > Are you getting a Forbidden message from Apache server? I ran into that > problem as well, and Bill Barker was kind enough to respond. This was his > post: > > "You need 775 (or at least 5 on the last digit). Apache requires "x" > permissions (which, for a directory means "list" rather than "execute" on > *nix systems) on the directories. Apache will do a tree-walk from '/' to > your directory incase you have any '.htaccess' files installed". > > What I did to correct the problem was change the tomcat directory to owner > and group rwx and other to rx. I recursively changed permissions so that > all subdirectories and files would have 775 permissions and that removed the > access denied problem. > > On a side note, I wonder if you can get away with just the tomcat directory > itself, and then recursively change the webapps directory to have those > permissions ....but I am thinking if the work directory doesn't have the > same permissions you may have trouble accessing the compiled servlets and > jsp's? (someone else would be able to answer that guess better than I) > > HTH > > Denise Mangano > Help Desk Analyst > Complus Data Innovations, Inc. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:27 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: virtual host problems... > > > Ok, I have tomcat and apache running together nicely but am having a problem > getting the virtual hosting for it to work. Right now when I go to: > <VirtualHost vort112> > ServerName vort112 > Alias /examples "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/examples" > > <Directory "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/examples"> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.jsp > </Directory> > > # Deny direct access to WEB-INF and META-INF > # > <Location "/examples/WEB-INF/*"> > AllowOverride None > deny from all > </Location> > > <Location "/examples/META-INF/*"> > AllowOverride None > deny from all > </Location> > > JkMount /examples/jsp/security/protected/j_security_check worker1 > JkMount /examples/snoop worker1 > JkMount /examples/servlet/* worker1 > JkMount /examples/CompressionTest worker1 > JkMount /examples/*.jsp worker1 > JkMount /examples/servletToJsp worker1 > JkMount /examples/SendMailServlet worker1 > </VirtualHost> > /jsp/ > it re-directs me to > http://<ip-address>/examples/jsp/ > which I dont really want. > Now when I had the following for virtual hosting.. > <VirtualHost vort112> > ServerName vort112 > Alias /examples "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/examples" > > <Directory "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/examples"> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.jsp > </Directory> > > # Deny direct access to WEB-INF and META-INF > # > <Location "/examples/WEB-INF/*"> > AllowOverride None > deny from all > </Location> > > <Location "/examples/META-INF/*"> > AllowOverride None > deny from all > </Location> > > JkMount /examples/jsp/security/protected/j_security_check worker1 > JkMount /examples/snoop worker1 > JkMount /examples/servlet/* worker1 > JkMount /examples/CompressionTest worker1 > JkMount /examples/*.jsp worker1 > JkMount /examples/servletToJsp worker1 > JkMount /examples/SendMailServlet worker1 > </VirtualHost> > I have some odd behavior. What happens is that i can still go to: > http://<domain>/examples and it will display the contents of it in the > tomcat format, but when I got to: http://<domain>/examples/jsp/ it gives an > access denied error, even if I just try to go to a normal html page inside > that directory. Not sure what to change, I basically copied what was > generated in the mod_jk.conf-auto file by tomcat, but didn't want to use it > because I don't need/want all the other directories in there. I've look > through the archives and couldn't find any thing that resembled this > problem, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks for your time! -- -Nick Stuart USM Computer Science Major Visit us at http://csforum.newtsplace.com (run with LAMP) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
