Hi. I'm running Apache on CentOS 5.5 as a newbie. When I point my browser to "http://localhost/index.html," which exists in /var/www/html/ and has permission set at 755 I get the error, "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server." I've tried this logged in as a normal user and as root.

When I try to access this page from another PC using the number following "inet addr:" as returned by the command, "ifconfig eth0," as the IP, I get the same error message, except that it lists the IP Address, not "localhost."

The error log includes errors for a client with the IP Address that I used except the last part of the address is different. Not sure how to procede from here. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi,

The DocumentRoot directory should have 755 permissions. For the files 644 is enough. So try
and see if it works.

Thanks, I tried that, but it still fails.

Hi

As you're running Centos, it's most probably SELinux that prevents apache to serve the page. The installation of apache should have taken care of the correct permissions on /var/www/html, but you can run:
If that doesn't work, post the output of:
and more details on how you've installed apache

Regards

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have you checked the error logs for any error messages?

Thanks bathory. That did it. Thanks for your effort geovg.