Apache

can someone help me set up my apache i have it up and running but when i try to access my home directory it gives me a 403 Forbidden error also i can i set it up when i create a new user on the box it will add there public_html folder auto? thanks toxic~

What permissions are on your DocumentRoot and files within?

Make sure that your files and directories have permissions for the webserver to read and execute where appropriate.

i dunno i am a newbie at this but i would like to get it up am running do i need a .htaccess file in my directory

You don't need an htaccess file.
Do an "ls -la" on the directory where you put your web documents - eg:
ls -la /var/www/html
or
ls -la /home/httpd/html

total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 31 11:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 31 11:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 webalizer root 4096 Sep 28 03:13 usage
but like when i create a new user like /home/newuser/public_html
is that the directory it reads from? im trying to give my friend a account to host a site for him

If you want to use per user directories then try this tutorial:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/public_html.html

are you talking about like when you try to access www.yourserver.com/~username ?

I had this problem last week where I would put the page in public_html and then it gave me the forbidden message.

check this
ls -l /home
you should have directories with at least read and execute
chmod 755 /home/username
chmod 755 ~/public_html
after that I was able to access the page.

like Blink_Fluid said, the home directory has to have permission of 755, the public_html directory must have 755 permissions and also you have to make sure you have setup apache to allow users to have web directories (usually just uncomment a section to allow it and do a killall -1 httpd to re-read the config file).

thanks to Blink_Fluid i have apache running i just followed the steps u gave me and it worked thanks man. ~toxic

also how do i edit how much website i want the limit to be for a person? also how do i start my ftp service so people can connect to the box

vsftpd comes with redhat 9. I tend to run it in standalone mode. Edit vsftpd.conf and uncomment the lines specifiec for standalone mode at the bottom. Then to make the service run on boot:
chkconfig --levels 345 vsftpd on

To start the service:
service vsftpd restart

To limit disk space you will need to look into filesystem quotas look at:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html

Or just run a cron job that alerts you and or the user when they are using too much space.