I have recently installed fedora core one and setup my apache server for 2 host websites.
Everyone can geto the websites via their browsers and all seems ok.
Except when I open mozilla and try to resolve to the website I am unable to the browser hangs. mozilla is able to browse to any other websites in the net just not mine. If I try to brows to localhost via mozilla I get the default apache webpage and not my default virtual host page.
any ideas.

what does the virtual hosts section look like in your httpd.conf file? Name based or ip based virtual hosting?

My thought right off is that if you're running name based you don't have the default virtual host set up quite right. I spent the past few days getting my server working properly with name based, so it's fresh in my head.

I did not have my httpd.conf configured correctly. It seemed that using the fedora http gui screwed the file up.

I do need your help with permissions though. I want to be able to ftp to the www root folder to update my website. What is the "rule of thumb " for http and ftp permissions?

ps you were right about the httpd.conf file.

this is one that I've had a little trouble with... not sure exactly what the permissions need to be.

since there have been no other posts I will tell you what I have got to work. It's probably the long way to go about it, but here it is anyway.

I created a user for the website and made that user part of the apache group. This user only has ftp access, and it's home directory is the same as the the root of the website.

Say I have my html files in /var/www/html and I have 2 subdirectories in the html directory called sub1 and sub 2, you'd do the following. I'll call the user "website".
Hope this helps, and maybe someone can tell us a better way to do this.