Problem Getting to BigBrother Page

[johngiggs]

Recently I noticed that I can no longer get to the BigBrother home page on my Apache server. I am running Apache version 1.3.27 on Solaris 8. I am getting the message "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /bb/bb.html on this server." I know this is some sort of permissions issue, but I'm not sure how to resolve it. I created a symbolic link from the Big Brother directory /export/home/bb/bb/

http://www to

/usr/local/apache/public/bb. The permissions on the directory /export/home/bb/bb/

http://www are

777 and it is owned by bb and the group is sys.

I have attempted to create a new directory and put a HTML file there and I can access it fine, so I know it's something to do with the permissions on this specific directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John

 

[TheGrey]

use ls -ln and see if it is a symlink, with other permissions on the target

 

[johngiggs]

TheGrey,

I did an ls -ln and the permissions are below.

<>**<> ls -ln bb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 1 22 May 4 14:07 bb -> /export/home/bb/bb/www
<>**<> ls -ltd /export/home/bb/bb/www drwxrwxrwx 12 bb sys 512 May 5 10:19 /export/home/bb/bb/www

From what I can see the permissions should be fine. Is there something I am missing?

Thanks,

John

 

[johngiggs]

Does anyone else have any thoughts or ideas as to what the problem is? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John

 

[lgarner]

Try checking the permissions on each directory in the path.

 

[johngiggs]

I tried changing the permissions on each directory to 777 and that still didn't work. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

John

 

[ORettinger]

Did you check your <Directory> settings within your httpd.conf?

 

[johngiggs]

I finally got it working with an Alias!! The line below in my httpd.conf did the trick.

Alias /bb "/export/home/bb/bb1.9e-btf/[URL unfurl="true"]www/"[/URL]

John