RE: Re: RE: Apache Web Server Permissions

[Ridhwan <rizwan clovertechnologies com>]

	To uninstall apache
	# rpm -e --nodeps apache
      We had the same problem. But we did not solve it. ! Instead we
uninstalled the apache which came with RH 6.2 and installed the one which came
with RH 6.1. It works fine. You can do this if u want till we find the sol.

	Rizwan	

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kyle Swidrovich wrote:
> 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")
> >
> 
> 
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