Subject: Re: Permissions for public_html folder?
From: Reid Anderson (resander@cs.hamilton.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 09:37:27 MST
OK, I did exactly as you said, and now when I try to access through a
browser, I simply get a listing of files and folders in that directory. Any
hints?
on 3/7/00 7:57 AM, Dennis Murphy at dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu wrote:
> You need to set x (execute) permissions for both your home directory and
> public_html directory. All html & graphic files, etc. need read permissions
> (644 should do).
>
> i.e.
>
> chmod 755 ~resander ~resander/public_html
> chmod 644 ~resander/public_html/*htm*
>
> ---
> Dennis Murphy
> Montclair State University
> College of Science & Mathematics
> SCInet Support & Development Group
> dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu
> (973)655-5414
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Reid Anderson wrote:
>
>>
>> I am trying to set up a public_html folder on the Linux server here at
>> Hamilton, and I have the folder set up, and have all the files there, and
>> have done the following lines:
>>
>> chmod go+r public_html
>> chmod go+r ~resander
>> chmod go+r public_html/default.html
>>
>> These all go OK, but then when I try to access the site through Netscape (or
>> any browser for that matter) I get:
>>
>> Forbidden
>> You don't have permission to access /~resander/ on this server.
>> Apache/1.3.11 Server at www.cs.hamilton.edu Port 80
>>
>>
>> I would simply consult my linux reference text, but I lent it to a friend
>> for a cs assignment! This isn't urgent or anything, but I would like to
>> figure this out. This is only a mirror of our site http://g4.hamilton.edu/
>> which is running on my Mac G4 500 with OS 9. It's fast, really fast! I
>> turned the G3/300 into a Linux box, but only temporarily until my sister
>> decides to stake claim to it. I would like to also have this site running
>> up on that server! That makes one copy on my G4, one on the CS server, one
>> on the G3, and one on the students web server. That's 4 copies of the same
>> site running and if you look at the site, it's not at all necessary, but we
>> did it just for kicks! Check it out and please feel free to give feedback!
>> It's only in it's very beginnings, but all the framework and some of the
>> data is there.
>>
>> http://g4.hamilton.edu/
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Reid
>>
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