why am i getting 403 forbidden error
when accessing tomcat4/webapps?
(using mod_jk)

thx

[root@beautifulmind tomcat4]# groups tomcat4
tomcat4 : tomcat4 web apache
[root@beautifulmind tomcat4]# groups apache
apache : apache web tomcat4

[root@beautifulmind tomcat4]# chown -R tomcat4.web /var/tomcat4/


[root@beautifulmind tomcat4]# ps --group apache
PID TTY TIME CMD
8701 ? 00:00:00 httpd-perl
8702 ? 00:00:00 httpd-perl
8703 ? 00:00:00 httpd-perl
8714 ? 00:00:00 httpd-perl
8724 ? 00:00:00 httpd
8725 ? 00:00:00 httpd
8726 ? 00:00:00 httpd
8727 ? 00:00:00 httpd
8729 ? 00:00:00 httpd
[root@beautifulmind tomcat4]# ps --group tomcat4
PID TTY TIME CMD
8524 pts/4 00:00:02 java
8536 pts/4 00:00:00 java
8537 pts/4 00:00:00 java
8538 pts/4 00:00:00 java
8539 pts/4 00:00:00 java
8540 pts/4 00:00:00 java
8541 pts/4 00:00:00 java
8542 pts/4 00:00:00 java
8543 pts/4 00:00:00 java

Well, you gave the group settings, but what are the actual permission settings on the directory and files.. ?

ls -al /tomcat4/webapps