[CS-FSLUG] Apache (gave up for tonight)

[Frank Bax]

Nathan:  You didn't show us your config file.  David mentioned permissions 
(remember than apache user must have access to all web content).  There can 
be any number of issues getting that first page to work properly.  On Tim's 
server, I've found that I must include the trailing slash in browser as in 
http://localhost/~nathan/ when a filename is not specified.  Not sure why 
that is (is Tim reading this?)  Apache will look for a couple of default 
files (like index.htm[l] or index.php or homepage.htm[l], etc) based on 
config file.  If none of these files exist, then apache will try to present 
a directory listing (like ftp site); but will instead produce an error if 
the option to allow directory listing is disabled.

Frank


At 04:34 AM 12/4/04, David Aikema wrote:

>Well, if you think that the server is configured correctly to handle
>the userdir setup, check the permissions for the directory in
>question.  One thing that tripped me up before when configuring Apache
>in this fashion was the fact that the web server user needed to have
>permissions to access all parent dirs (I can't remember if you only
>needed to set the execute bit, or if you also needed the read bit).
>
>David
>
>On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:47:46 -0600, N. Thompson <n.thomp at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > I got tired of trying to get apache tomcat to work, at first it was going
> > alright until I got so far and the blasted thing wouldn't let me run any
> > compiled java beans (compiled java code separate from the actual pages that
> > does cannot run as standalone applications).
> >
> > Now I'm playing with Apache and perl but no matter what I try I cannot 
> get the
> > blasted thing to allow me to use http://localhost/~nathan , every time 
> I try
> > it gives me a "403 forbidden" error message, I've looked through the apache
> > documentation for a way to fix this and came across something on 
> mod_userdir
> > but I tried reading the documentation and modifying the configuriaton files
> > appropriately with no success. Can anyone help me out? I hate working with
> > web servers :-( .
> >
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