403?! but the directory is chmod'ed correctly!!!

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Hi,<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;I just finished installing Apache and I cant get it to serve up documents. I have chmod the directory correctly, as it says when ls -l the directory, that &quot;other&quot; can read it. not write or execute, but read.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;So why doesnt it work then?! All my config files are perfect, and it starts just fine. But I keep getting 403!!!<br><br>lates,<br>click46

 

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I don't know if this will help, but I believe you're talking about apache for linux or unix.&nbsp;&nbsp;I used to have that problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;You should have all the directories from the root of the webpage down to the root of the file system readable by all users.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the same if you set up user directories in the user folders.&nbsp;&nbsp;their folder has to be readable by all.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can' just have a folder inside another folder which has no read access.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>If it's not that then you probably have something like a cgi script running on your page and have no access to execute the cgi scripts.&nbsp;&nbsp;I actually got a 403 error this morning for that reason.<br>If this helped then you're welcome.&nbsp;&nbsp;If not, sorry I couldn't help.<br><br>- Steve Kiehl, webmaster, <b><i>Nanovox</i>.com</b>