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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 22:41:58 -0800
From: "J. Greenlees" <jaqui@shaw.ca>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Error 403 but permissions seem correct

on my Mandrake 8.2 box the docroot was defaulted to start with 
./var/www/html
the leading . gave me the same problem you are having.


Justin Williams wrote:
> Hi everybody; been hunting for a solution all over the place (Google, all
> the FAQs I can find, etc.).
> 
> I just set up Apache 1.3.23 on Mandrake Linux 8.2.  Went through WebMin to
> set up the Name-Based virtual servers.  All that went fine.  Problem
> happened when I try to get to those domains, either by name or by IP.  Error
> 403 Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access / on this server.
> 
> If I try to go to domain/index.html (which exists on all the domains), I get
> that I don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.
> 
> If I try to go to domain/fubar.html (which does not exist on any of the
> domains), I get the same message.  I don't have permission to access
> /fubar.html on this server.
> 
> The old server showed those domains fine; but having moved those files to
> the new server, they blow up.  All permissions in the directories have been
> set to 755/644, carried all the way through all the directories.  I've tried
> setting all permissions to 777, as well, with no luck.
> 
> Hopefully, somebody has run into this issue before.  Can anybody help?
> Thanks!!
> 
> 
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