Apache Webserver 403 Forbidden Errors (User not in apache group?)

Mankind75 · 07-02-2004, 03:54 AM

Hi everybody,

I am running a fresh Mandrake 10 installation and I am currently setting up my Apache2 webserver. I am planning to serve files from /webserver and I have changed the Document Root in /etc/http/conf/httpd2.conf accordinly. I also created the directory /webserver (owned by a user called webserver I have created with access set to 777) Still I am getting forbidden errors. Can anyone help?

linuxxed · 07-02-2004, 06:47 AM

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Originally posted by Mankind75
Hi everybody,

I am running a fresh Mandrake 10 installation and I am currently setting up my Apache2 webserver. I am planning to serve files from /webserver and I have changed the Document Root in /etc/http/conf/httpd2.conf accordinly. I also created the directory /webserver (owned by a user called webserver I have created with access set to 777) Still I am getting forbidden errors. Can anyone help?

have you checked the permissions from the root directory all the way down to the child? if you're trying to access a directory, have you enabled directory indexing?

Mankind75 · 07-05-2004, 09:13 AM

It was a permissions problem as /home and /home/username didn't have execute permissions and the webserver couldn't enter the directories. A chmod a+x worked fine but another problem has come up. I noticed that with my Mandrake 10 installation the permissions are being reset after a certain amount of time and I would have to reenter them manually. Is there any way to automate this?

kiwiruss · 07-05-2004, 09:43 AM

I had a similar error after setting up mandrake 10 and specifying Medium security during the install.

It was blocking all http traffic which I had to allow.

Since Mine is behind a smoothwall firewall I'll probably just reinstall mine and leave the mandrake security open.

Mankind75 · 07-08-2004, 05:30 AM

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Originally posted by kiwiruss
I had a similar error after setting up mandrake 10 and specifying Medium security during the install.

Yep that was the problem. Mandrake runs msec every hour and gets its configuration from
/usr/share/msec/perm.* where the * indicates the security level. (level 5 = paranoid).