hort nerd wrote:

> Have you checked the permission of the file?
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> In shell: go to the folder where your doc is.
> type: ls -la
> look for the document's permission structure.
> -rw------- 1 username group 0 Aug 16 08:41 test.html
> if you see '-rw-------' you know you cannot read it from the web.
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> So, type:
> chmod 644 test.html
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> You should now see this when you type ls -la:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 username group 0 Aug 16 08:41 test.html
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> Regardless of username, it should now be available for view on the web
> if the document is placed above the web root.
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> Chris
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> "Tux" <andrewjj20@telus.net> wrote in message
> news:xLm%a.5821$ew2.2285@edtnps84...
>> I have set the owner of a file group and changed the user
>> name on apache several times, but I still get a page that says
>> 403 forbidden error when I try to acces it, can someone help me
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>> andrewjj20
It didn't work, I just changed the permissions, and still get
403 Forbidden error, I did what you said, then even set the owner to
apache and the group to apache, then restarted apache, and still get the
error.