Re: RE: Apache Web Server Permissions

["Kyle Swidrovich" <kswidrovich globalstrategy com>]

My access.conf file is empty (except for a bunch of hashed comment lines).
(I've even reinstalled ["updated"] the Apache web server package from the
  original Redhat 6.2 CD, and it still doesn't work...)

I believe that the problem lies somewhere with ownership/group of some
directory somewhere on the machine... because there is only two reasons
that

I can think of why the "Forbidden" message would come up:
1.  A directory has ownership/group permissions set up incorrectly, OR
2.  The httpd.conf file has some screwed up <Directory> section that is
restricting
      _everybody_ from accessing the root html folder.
(Try going to http://199.43.143.3... )

But, as I said before, I changed the directory permissions recursively on
/home/httpd/html
to nobody/nobody, root/root, someotheruser/someotherrandomgroup and none
of them work.
And, I reinstalled the Apache web server already...  maybe it didn't
rewrite the httpd.conf file...

Does anybody know how to _manually_ uninstall and reinstall the Apache Web
Server from
scratch off the Redhat 6.2 CDs?

Thank you very much.
-= Kyle =-
=================================================
>Did you use any configuration tool to configure Apache?
>Out of the box apache should work, with very little configuration.
>what is your /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf like?
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kyle Swidrovich [mailto:kswidrovich globalstrategy com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2000 10:53
>> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
>> Subject: Apache Web Server Permissions
>> 
>> 
>> I need some REAL help...
>> 
>> I have done something wrong, and I don't know what it is.
>> I am EXTREMELY desperate for help, because nobody else knows what's
>> wrong...
>> 
>> Every time I try to visit "localhost", "Tux", or 
>> "199.43.143.3" (names/IP)
>> in
>> a web browser on the local/remote machines, I get the message:
>> 
>> =====================================
>> Forbidden
>> You don't have permission to access / on this server.
>> =====================================
>> 
>> My httpd.conf is set for:
>> 
>> User nobody
>> Group nobody
>> 
>> and the root folder to be:  /home/httpd/html
>> 
>> And I tried setting the owner and group of the 
>> /home/httpd/html folder to
>> be nobody/nobody, but
>> it still doesn't work...
>> 
>> How can I fix this?
>> 
>> (I think the original reason why it stopped working was 
>> because somebody
>> chown'd the / folder
>>   recursively to the user "root")
>