hi every body,
I would like to run apache server .
My document root is /var/www/html/
and i have a index.php file in this path: /var/www/html/cacti
when i want to see the page that put http://172.16.1.230/cacti
I envisage the forbbiden error.
I have changed the cacti mod to 755 but this problem has not been solved.
and the httpd service was running.

Please Help me.

Check your httpd.conf for the "DirectoryIndex" directive.
You have to add "index.php" and restart apache.

that 's right,
but I have added it already and restarted apache.

What happens if you give: http://172.16.1.230/cacti/index.php
Also take a look at the apache error_log to see if you find out what the problem is.

the error log:access denied
and http://172.16.1.230/cacti/index.php ,exist the same as error,Forbidden.

Is it a 401 or 403 error? Post here the relevant lines from your error_log and access_log to see what is the error number.
What happens if you put a plain index.html in that directory?
Also what distro are you using?

What are the permissions on "/var/www/html/cacti/index.php"? What are the permissions on "/var/www/html/"? Have you used PHPs successfully on this server before?

what should i do in this respect?
do i have to do anything special about php?
I installed the php rpm on my server ,that's it.and start it with apache service.

Dear Bathory

I use Fedora Core 3 distribution,
error number is :403
the access_log errors are the following,when i try to see ttp://172.16.1.230/cacti/index.php

172.16.1.230 - - [22/Oct/2005:09:42:00 -0400] "GET /cacti/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403 414 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1"
172.16.1.230 - - [22/Oct/2005:09:42:00 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 287 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1"
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the relevant error_log about access index.php:
[Sat Oct 22 09:29:52 2005] [error] [client 172.16.1.5] (13)Permission denied: access to /cacti/index.php denied
[Sat Oct 22 09:36:14 2005] [error] [client 172.16.1.5] (13)Permission denied: access to /cacti/index.php denied
[Sat Oct 22 09:41:54 2005] [error] [client 172.16.1.230] (13)Permission denied: access to /cacti/index.php denied
[Sat Oct 22 09:41:54 2005] [error] [client 172.16.1.230] File does not exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico
[Sat Oct 22 09:42:00 2005] [error] [client 172.16.1.230] (13)Permission denied: access to /cacti/index.php denied
[Sat Oct 22 09:42:00 2005] [error] [client 172.16.1.230] File does not exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico

and when I include the index.html to cacti directory ,there is not any problem and the page can be display.

There's something wrong with your config since apache looks under /cacti and not under /var/www/html/cacti. Thus the 403 error. Perhaps you have something like:

Dear Bathory,


I checked the directory that is Document root :/var/www/html/
and /var/www/html/cacti is the path that i used for this software.
i think that this problem is not under /cacti ,because when i set the index.html this path there is not any problem and the page be displayed.


thanks alot.

Then it should be SELinux!!!. Read this to see what you have to do.