can not load my website

[biswajit123]

Hi,

I am using solaris and had a sys. crash sometimes back.
The system is made up again without effecting the sys config. Only by mistake i have locked the user "nobody" thinking that its not being used.

I started apache and browsed my website, it is giving
" Forbidden: You don't have permission to access / on this server.Apache/1.3.6 Server at URL. Port 80 " Error.

I checked httpd.conf using user "nobody" and group "nobody"
But I am getting the error even if I unlock back the user "nobody".

DocumentRoot/DirectoryIndex has got the right path/filename.
what could be the problem?

Is there anybody who can help.

regards
Biswajit
IISc

 

[RhythmAce]

You can control access to directories in two ways. One is by creating a Directory container for it in httpd.conf then using the the following two directives:

Order allow, deny
Allow from all

This will allows access by everybody. The second is using chown or chmod. Use chown to change the owner and group of a directory or file. Use chmod to give specific Read, Write and Execute permissions to user/owner, group and world. To find out a little more on these commands, type, for example "man chmod" at the shell prompt.

 

[biswajit123]

hi RhythmAce

Thanx for ur reply. The httpd.conf is having the same <Directory> container as you said and I also tried changing the file/directory attributes.

But still im getting the same error. Do you find any other alternative?

Thanks
Biswajit
IISc