Newbie: First steps - first question

Hi!

I just started to set up a Homepage at our local LAN. So I wrote a
simple "index"-file as a first start.

The dir "/srv/www/htdocs" looks like this:

torsten@pc-1:/srv/www/htdocs> ll
insgesamt 128
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2003-07-13 13:30
DownloadArea -> /usr/download
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2003-07-14 16:20 Pictures
-> /home/torsten/Pics/More
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2003-07-13 13:30
PublicStuff -> /usr/public
-rw-r--r-- 1 torsten users 1418 2003-07-15 07:53 index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 torsten users 14559 2003-07-14 17:22 logo.jpg

The code-fragment looks like this:

<div align="center">
<H2>Available Resources</H2>
<A HREF="./DownloadArea">DOWNLOADS</A><br>
<A HREF="./PublicStuff">PUBLIC STUFF</A><br>
<A HREF="./Pictures" >PICTURES</A><br>
</div>

The problem:
If someone clicks on "DownloadArea" or "PublicStuff", everything works
fine, while "Pictures" ends up in a
"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /Pictures on this server.
Apache/1.3.27 Server at pc-1.home.lan Port 80"

Neither the user nor root can access this directory/link.

The question:
Can someone explain, how to solve this?


Best Regards, Torsten

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Hi davide !

>> You don't have permission to access /Pictures on this server.
>> Apache/1.3.27 Server at pc-1.home.lan Port 80"

> Check if on /usr/public you have permissione 755 (rwxr-xr-x).

No, I tried 755 and 777 for "/home/torsten/Pics/More", but it is still
the same...


Regards, Torsten

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- Today is the past of tomorrow
- Linux is like a Wigwam: No Windows, no Gates - but Apache inside!
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Also make sure that each directory leading up to it is that way, if
/home/torsten/ is not allowing then it doesn't matter that
/home/torsten/Pics/More is.

"Torsten Beekhuis" <tbeekhuis@knuut.de> wrote in message
news:astcu-732.ln1@beekhuis.myfqdn.de...
> Hi davide !
>
> >> You don't have permission to access /Pictures on this server.
> >> Apache/1.3.27 Server at pc-1.home.lan Port 80"
>
> > Check if on /usr/public you have permissione 755 (rwxr-xr-x).
>
> No, I tried 755 and 777 for "/home/torsten/Pics/More", but it is still
> the same...
>
>
> Regards, Torsten
>
> --
> - Today is the past of tomorrow
> - Linux is like a Wigwam: No Windows, no Gates - but Apache inside!
> - registered Linux user #194586 (http://counter.li.org)

Hi ZedGama3 !

> Also make sure that each directory leading up to it is that way, if
> /home/torsten/ is not allowing then it doesn't matter that
> /home/torsten/Pics/More is.

Mmh - I wonder. That is equal to set nearly the whole filesystem to
"755", or am I wrong?
This was the reason to make a symbolic link to the target...

Again:
Why does it work on "normal" directories, but not this
"home-sub-directory" ???


Regards, Torsten

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- Today is the past of tomorrow
- Linux is like a Wigwam: No Windows, no Gates - but Apache inside!
- registered Linux user #194586 (http://counter.li.org)