Re: 403 Forbidden error

Have you checked the permission of the file?

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.

So, type:
chmod 644 test.html

You should now see this when you type ls -la:
-rw-r--r-- 1 username group 0 Aug 16 08:41 test.html

Regardless of username, it should now be available for view on the web
if the document is placed above the web root.

Chris









"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
>
> andrewjj20

hort nerd wrote:

> Have you checked the permission of the file?
>
> 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.
>
> So, type:
> chmod 644 test.html
>
> You should now see this when you type ls -la:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 username group 0 Aug 16 08:41 test.html
>
> Regardless of username, it should now be available for view on the web
> if the document is placed above the web root.
>
> 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
>>
>> 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.

"Josh" <andrewjj20@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:iht%a.7643$ew2.6088@edtnps84...
> hort nerd wrote:
> 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.

One question!
Where on your server is the file?
What <directory> directive covers the location?
(ie does it have something like
<Directory />
Deny from all
</Directory>
)
Do you have any File directive that is also doing a Deny All

Mike.

hort nerd wrote:

> Have you checked the permission of the file?
>
> 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.
>
> So, type:
> chmod 644 test.html
>
> You should now see this when you type ls -la:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 username group 0 Aug 16 08:41 test.html
>
> Regardless of username, it should now be available for view on the web
> if the document is placed above the web root.
>
> 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
>>
>> andrewjj20
they are both DocumentRoot

Josh wrote:

> hort nerd wrote:
>
>> Have you checked the permission of the file?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> So, type:
>> chmod 644 test.html
>>
>> You should now see this when you type ls -la:
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 username group 0 Aug 16 08:41 test.html
>>
>> Regardless of username, it should now be available for view on the web
>> if the document is placed above the web root.
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> andrewjj20
> they are both DocumentRoot
I am about ready to reinstall linux to repaire the permissions to the /var/
directory

Josh wrote:

> Josh wrote:
>
>> hort nerd wrote:
>>
>>> Have you checked the permission of the file?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> So, type:
>>> chmod 644 test.html
>>>
>>> You should now see this when you type ls -la:
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 username group 0 Aug 16 08:41 test.html
>>>
>>> Regardless of username, it should now be available for view on the web
>>> if the document is placed above the web root.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> andrewjj20
>> they are both DocumentRoot
> I am about ready to reinstall linux to repaire the permissions to the
> /var/ directory
nevermind I am reinstalling linux

andrewjj20