Fresh install of RH 9.

Using Apache (HTTPD) and used the default directory structure for the pages /var/www/html. Pages get served fine.

Change my virtual directory to /home/jim/newsite and made sure that permissions are IDENTICAL to the way /var/www/html folder and files and when I try to serve up a page I receive:

Forbidden

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

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered

I've been struggling with this all day and I know that in RH 8 I didn't have this issue.

Help would be greatly appreciated...

-jP

Make sure you have a directory entry in httpd.conf that allows connections by default.

Make sure you have a directory entry in httpd.conf that allows connections by default.

What is it that I'm looking for and what values should I set it to?

I checked another machines httpd.conf file and my machine and neither popped anything like you mentioned out to me.

Regards,

Your old document root /var/www/html should have had a <Directory> entry. Change the path in this entry to point to your new DocumentRoot

Should look something like this in your config file: