apache woes forbidden strange

[Gordon Messmer]

Dan wrote:
> FYI.  I disabled SElinux and rebooted. "Ahhh good old windows way"
> For whatever reason the file is not visible in apache, so either the 
> reboot fixed it, or the disabling of selinux.

It was SELinux.

Your security context type wasn't right, so do this:

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /yum

That will set the correct type for all files in /yum.  As John 
suggested, you should also "fix" the ownership and permissions:

chown -R root:root /yum
find /yum -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /yum -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;