Hi all,

I hope this is the right forum for my question. I hope so, since I always seem to find the right solutions from you people. Here's my problem:

I'm working on a virtual host. successfully installed php, mysql etc.
I've uploaded some stuff on my wwwroot which is:

/home/httpd/vhosts/default/htdocs/

installed awstats, and here is the strange thing- I have a folder named:

awstatsicons with some gifs jpgs etc. when I try to view files from that folder, I get:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /awstatsicons/other/hp.png on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

but when I change the folder name from awstatsicons to lets say: icons,
It's fine! I get no error and I could see the file. (The same happened with another folder, once I changed the name I didn't get the 'forbidden' error any more) I tried googling to see if I could find a similar story. I didn't.(Everyone semed to say to place an index.htm file in the home directory, which I did)

Any ideas?

Thanks, really appreiciate if someone could hrlp me out here.

Tamara

Are you possibly using a linux distro that has selinux enabled?

FWIW: I had a very similar problem using apache on a FC3 based system even after I did a chmod 777 on the directory that was forbidden. Once I disabled selnux, all was fine with apache and I could reset the directory permissions back to normal.

To be honest, I don't know (thats why I'm a newbie)

How can I check if I've got selnx running?

Well, unfortunately, SElinux does'nt seem to be running (or maybe I didn't check this correctly , I just tried 'ps -ef')

Any more ideas?

I'm getting desperate...

Thanks,
Tamara

I don't know much about selinux, but it's not a process that runs in userspace. i.e. ps I believe its a compiled option when you build the kernel.

On my fc3 system, I edited /etc/selinux/config and set the SELINUX variable to SELINUX=disabled.

Then rebooted. Thats it!

Thanks for your reply,

...I don't have a /etc/selinux in fact I searched all files using

find / -name *selinux* -print

and didn't get anything, so my guess is that its not running?

-Tamara

P-L-E-A-S-E!!!!


Any other ideas, guesses? (anything is welcome)


Thanks,
Tamara

I'd like to add that here is my httpd.include file, which contains my vhosts configuration:

ServerName rssjump.prod.phx1.secureserver.net
ServerAdmin root@rssjump.prod.phx1.secureserver.net

DocumentRoot /home/httpd/vhosts/default/htdocs

<Directory "/home/httpd/vhosts">
AllowOverride None
# Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# php_admin_flag engine off
</Directory>


<Directory "/var/mailman">
AllowOverride None
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
php_admin_flag engine off
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir disabled
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

</IfModule>


Thanks,
Tamara