Apache problem

jank

didnt know where to put this so ill start here

im just after installing apache2.0 on red hat9

all seems well but when i try and access the sample web page( i do this by ip number eg 157.190.xxx.xxx) then i get a forbidden message saying i dont have permission to access the \ directory i changed all the file permissions via chmod - R 755 [filename]

im after changing the web directory to root/myname/www where i have an html file called index there but it aint happining for me

i goggled this but cant seem to find any answers at all

i pressume its something in the httpd.conf file that is wrong

small problem but very annoying
any ideas?

Draco

what's the DocumentRoot set in your httpd.conf? make sure that directory and the files in are readable by the apache user.

dahamsta

What platform are you on? What does the error log say?

adam

jank

platform is red hat 9 kernal 2.4.x
the error log says

"[Fri Feb 27 15:57:13 2004] [error] [client 157.190.181.57] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied"

the web page also says that ""Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.""
my document root is set to
DocumentRoot "/root/myname/www/"

i have a webpage called index.html in www

with permissions set to 755 for all is that what you mean by readable

however does the file owner or group have anything to do with this at all??

tricky D

644 for files, 755 for dirs and scripts, in general (why would you want to execute a static html file)

sounds like ownership/group mismatching to me. ownership is important, not just of the files but also who runs the process (check for httpd process owner using ps -aux)

there are a few combos for doing it: some run httpd as nobody, www, httpd, username or even root (don't unless... nah just don't).

google for "setting up apache" +ownership or +permissions and maybe +tutorial and see which advice/tutorial best suits the lie of your land

hth
\r

jank

yea i did that (ps -aux)
one process is root and 4 are nobody

i the httpd.conf file i changed the ownership to

""User nobody
Group root""

this seems to have got ridden of the error ""Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request""

but the main error of ""You don't have permission to access / on this server"" remains

i also changed the ownership and group to the www folder where my html file is located to

file owner nobody
file group root

to match the configuration i have in httpd.conf but still no luck


just not may day with this stuff:dunno:

jank

whooo hoo got it going at last
i copied over the conf file i had with a back up and then changed the user and the group

reverted my dir back to the default and hey presto it worked
must have doen soemthign wierd in there at the start that denied all access!?

you have to put an exe permission on the folder the pages are in and have the ownership and the groups matching with the same (i have mine as nobody, nobody)

thats all really just took some time finding out

cheers for teh help lads

Draco

what could have been wrong is that in the Directory config for /root/myname/www wasn't setup properly - missing something like the following:

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 10.0