Well then you need to chown -R nobody:nobody
on your /var/www if apache is running as nobody.
-Joe
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 12:38 am, you wrote:
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access / on this server.
> Apache/1.3.26 Server at organic-earth.com Port 80
> (127.0.0.1)
> (192.168.xxx.xxx)
>
> I can't see the problem in httpd.conf anywhere so apparently I trashed some
> directory permissions.
>
> Doc root is /var/www/html/
> The custom "missing.html" page still works from that directory.
> If named ( http://organic-earth.com/index.php ), the index page displays
> properly.
>
> hmmmmmmm ... what is missing is the default for the directory.
>
> Apache is running in standalone mode (starts as root, switches to nobody /
> nobody automagically)
>
> 'apachectl restart' was issued after each change and the browser deities
> invoked to see if the error message had budged.
>
> Perms are
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 536 Jun 26 10:24 var/
> drwxr-xr-x 8 apache apache 240 Jul 23 18:42 www/
> drwxrwxr-x 14 apache bill 3296 Jul 23 18:32 html/
>
> I will confess to not knowing what I am doing (and being darned tired to
> boot) if someone out there in e-mail land will confess to knowing what the
> problem is with the web site below.
>
> I am not trolling for hits. Right now all hits are generating errors.
>
> (Okay ... I found a kludge. I renamed (so as to remove from existence) the
> index.html file and linked it to the index.php file. The answer works but
> is a landmine waiting for me to forget it's there. I'd still like to know
> the correct directive to cause
>
> Bill
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