Re: Apache can't use directory not in root partition?

R.F. Pels wrote: 
Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark) wrote:

Yes, OK, but what are the permissions on /home/smith?

the same: rwxr-xr-x

Hmmm. Did you restart apache after you modified the configuration files?

Yes, after each mod and test. I even rebooted a couple of times. 

But now it gets more weird.  I tarred the website from
/a/www/html to /var/www/html and here is what happens:

-rw-r--r-- Dec 26 13:37 index.html gives error: Forbidden

Any rules re index.html? 
No.

What's the output of the error log? 

example  (x.x.x.x is the ip number--I'd rather not give that
out yet as the machine is not yet configured):
[Sat Dec 31 17:14:08 2005] [error] [client x.x.x.x]
         (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied

When I change to index.test2.html, the text loads (the exact
copy of index.html, but all the icons fail with:
with errors like:
[Sat Dec 31 17:15:56 2005] [error] [client x.x.x.x]
        (13)Permission denied: access to /a-icons/c073093_01_26-400a.jpg denied



cp index.html index.test2.html

-rw-r--r-- Dec 31 14:35 index.test2.html now is accessible!

Owner? Weird... 

I've changed it to apache, group apache and same thing.

I also copied the httpd.conf file from the old machine to the
new one and just changed the directory to /var/www/html but
no change in results.  It seems like this may be a system thing,
not an apache thing?

Roger
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