Still a Newbie

Running Mandrake 9.2 .
Apache 2
After accidentally extracting some files into /var/www/html
I deleted them and restored the original files from a backup. I now get on
the browser.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

I have tried changing permissions for /var/www/html to
group apache and owner apache and 755 permissions
and the individual files. I have done the service http restart .
Still the same message. What other things can I check?
Server has it's version messages so I guess the server is partially functional ?
How can a simple file replacement foul up the permissions ?

I have tried it on the LAN and from the WWW side same message . Mail server is still working so
internet is connected and working. External firewall hasn't been changed.

.htaccess file is still there

What files are in there:
ls -la /var/www/html

Are you accessing a file directly, ie "/file.html", or just the "/" directory?

I have tried the IP address http://XXX.XXX.X.XXX/ , Normally works , http://XXX.XXX.X.XXX/Index.html , Normally works , http://XXX.XXX.X.XXX/index.shtml , Normally works,


I can Browse file:///var/www/html/Index.html and file:///var/www/html/index.shtml and both work
fine so the page content seems OK .

Files are .
Index.html
platform.html
index.shtml
optim.html
Image1.gif
.htaccess
favicon.ico

and 3 sub directories that have not been touched .

Thanks for the reply .

Leo

Hello

I found it . Checked permissions with ls -la . Turns out there must have been a .htaccess
file in the archive I extracted. The ownership of the .htaccess file looked fishy so
extracted the archive to a dummy directory and the creation date and ownership of .htaccess was the same as the one in /var/www/html directory, deleted it and all is good again.

Thanks for prompting david