Apache: 403 Forbidden, You don't have permission

baosheng · 03-23-2007, 02:33 AM

I installed Apache2 via compiling the source code. It was installed at /usr/local/apache2.

It is very strange that I can only put files in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
to let others access html files via HTTP.

If I put files in other directory, Apache said this on the browser

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

But I have already even set the mod of the folder and files under the folder as 0777. I have also set all parent directories searchable.

I haven't encounter this problem before.

Can anyone help me? Thanks.

bathory · 03-23-2007, 03:45 AM

You need to create an Alias

Code:

Alias /somedir "/path/to/somedir"

and then add a <Directory> directive for that dir similar to that of DocumentRoot:

Code:

<Directory "//path/to/somedir">
    Options Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Regards