Hello all, can you help please?

I am ditching using a win2K server for all sorts of reasons and am migrating
to Linux RH9.

My server is built and seems to work ok when I have a default site to serve
with Apache 2.0.40. I have set my group and ownership of directory and
files to apache for /var/www/<all subs and content>. The permissions are
set so that the directories are readable and executable by everybody
(rwxr-xr-x) and the files are readable by everybody (rw-r--r--).

The default site was viewable up until I try to add a virtual host using the
apacheconf tool. I am no longer able to see the default site; I get
redirected to the Apache Web Server test page.

The error logs say "Directory index forbidden by rule:
/var/www/<subdirectory>.

I have enabled the indexing of all the sites.

Any ideas please?

Regards

Alan

panic over - all fixed

a duff dns and host config issue

I am having a similar problem so if Alan can write down how to fix it? or if someone else knows how to fix it I'd Really appreciate it.

I have Apache set up with virtual hosts and am getting Directory Forbidden but the directories are all screwed up in the error logs.

Should I start a different thread for this question?

Cheers
Checta

Hi checta

My final solution to the situation I experienced was to do a complete RH9 clean install, post a simple web page with a phpinfo/cgi/mySQL setup to prove Apache was serving and interacting to the other services/daemons correctly.

Why? Well I had originally used synaptic to update my RH9 build but I suspect that that had changed my default config in some strange way that had contributed to my "forbidden by rule" situation. Certainly it made no difference by any chmods I made and my httpd.conf was working ok on a default RH9 install elsewhere.

On IRC I spoke to a guy who said he had had better experience in updating his RH* configs using yum. Having proved my clean install config was ok and then my virtual hosts setup, I then updated with yum and all is still ok. I shall be staying with yum in preference to up2date or synaptic.

By the way, to those reading this; where do folks usually place their mySQL databases on RH linux platforms for Apache interaction please?

Good luck checta!

Alan

Hi Alan!
Thanks for your reply - fortunately my problem wasn't as complicated as yours and I managed to figure it out. I just had some problems with my hosts. (ie )

Cheers,
Claire