Permission error attempting to access a web image
 

Hi everyone,

All along I have been developing a web site on my Windows XP box and then testing it on my Linux box. I had directories of the same names and folder hierarchy on both systems and would just copy the files from their current directory onto their synonymous directories on the Linux system. I could see the images and PHP files just fine.

Finally I got my site "finished" and decided to delete the testing directory on the Linux server and copy a fresh version of all the most recent files. It seems that this process has caused permission errors that chmod 644 can't fix.

I get the current error if I try to view one of the web images in a browser:

You don't have permission to access /Images/Web-Logo.gif on this server


The structure of the site inside Htdocs is:

Htdocs
-rwxr-xr-x- Site_folder
--rwxr-xr-x--- images
--rwxr-r-- -------- Web-Logo.gif
--rwxr-xr-x--- includes
-rwxr-r-- -- file1.php
-rwxr-r-- -- file2.php

I had a similar problem with one of the include file but setting chmod 644 on the file in question resolved the issue.

I have set chmod 644 on the images directory and the Web-Logo.gif and still I get the permissions error.

Does anyone have any idea what is happening as I have tried to take this back to the same situation that I had when I had the test directories but I can't seem to get it right.

I would kindly like you help on this one. Any suggestions are welcomed!

Truly,
ServerStorm

Directories (folders) need execute permission for users to be able to see what's inside them so chmod 644 is not enough.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks that indeed was the problem. I had forgoten that folders need execute permissions.

Cheers,
ServerStorm