Re: Apache question on SUSE 9.1 Pro.

From: Paul J Gans (gans_at_panix.com)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:44:43 +0000 (UTC)

Neville Cobb <npcobb@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>Synful wrote:

>> Morning,
>>
>> Been pulling my hair out trying to get a website up for my internal
>> network
>> at home. I have the apache service / daemon running with no issues.
>>
>> The problem however is that I get the following error when trying to
>> connect to the default web site:
>>
>> "Access forbidden!
>>
>>
>> You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is
>> either no index document or the directory is read-protected.
>>
>>
>> If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
>>
>>
>> Error 403
>>
>> andrew
>> Sun Aug 29 10:48:45 2004
>> Apache/2.0.49 (Linux/SuSE) "
>>
>> I've coem to SUSE from Fedora where this sort of issue never arose.
>> I do notice however that SUSE does have some subtle differences in
>> comparison to SUSE in terms of file location.
>>
>> My default web site files are in /srv/www/htdocs as per the apache
>> configuration in YAST, with the different locations for files, I am sure
>> that there is something very simple that I'm missing.
>>
>> I love SUSE & find it much better than Fedora in terms of speed &
>> useability but little things like this are very frustrating :-(
>>
>Try using http://localhost/~username/
>as I think SuSE uses /home/username/public_html as the default web-folder

As I recall that is in the configuration files, but I'm not
sure it is turned on by default. But I could be wrong.

   ----- Paul J. Gans

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