403 forbidden :You don't have permission to access /hi.html on this server.

av.dubey · 12-20-2007, 11:45 AM

iam using fedora 6
checked apache server ...running and showing the default page @http://localhost
made an html file named "hi.html"
<html><body><h1>HI HTML</h1></body></html>

now when iam typing http://localhost/hi.html in firefox web browser
iam getting an error as

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /hi.html on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80

i have already typed these
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/

and
chmod 755 /var/www/html/hi.html

still iam getting this error

plzz do help me ...as m new to linux n hav got stuck in this ....

Caesar Tjalbo · 12-20-2007, 12:40 PM

I can't help you with this. Perhaps someone else can and you may want to add whether you've restarted Apache and whether you're using SELinux.
Apache is a service/ daemon called "httpd", there's a config utility for services somewhere under system administration or similar which allows you to start and stop services. SELinux is administrated in the same utility as the firewall, if I recall correctly, and you can see in what setting it is, like 'disabled' or 'enforcing'. Via a console/ terminal you can go to the /var/www/html/ directory and type

Code:

ls -alZ

ls lists the contents of a directory, a = all files, l = long notation, Z = SELinux security context. I don't know if it's relevant but it never hurts to copy the output here. SELinux is often on with Fedora and it has bugged me before when working on a site on localhost.

av.dubey · 12-20-2007, 01:33 PM

well i came up with the above fault by using chmod and chown commands..
but now my server is displayin normal html pages in the html dir but when im opening a cgi script which i have pasted in /cog-bin directory its givin the following error

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>500 Internal Server Error</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Internal Server Error</h1>
<p>The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.</p>
<p>Please contact the server administrator,
root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.</p>
<p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache Server at localhost Port 80</address>
</body></html>

LinuxCrayon · 12-21-2007, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by av.dubey

<p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>

So...did you check your error log? What are the contents?