Apache 404/403 problem

nothe · 09-23-2012, 07:05 AM

Hello!

I am new to Linux and gave me than to set up a LAMP server. I'm running CentOS.
I got all LAMP components to function. Then I went on FTP and read my way to vsftp works fine, so I installed it.
What I'm trying to do now is to connect ftp program so I can access any folder I also accessible via http.

Following the instructions, I have created user in the FTP program that allows me to access the folder / home / erik via ftp. It works fine now.
But I can not access it via http. I try to access it via 192.168.1.64 / ~ erik
For a while it was 403 No. permissions. Then when I changed chmod on the home or erik folder (do not know which one triggered faults) I no longer got error 403 but '404 Not found'. Even if I chmod home, erik and public_html to 777, I get '404 Not found' via http.

How can it worth by increasing the rights?
How can I resolve it?

Grateful for answers.

_dkode_ · 09-23-2012, 02:12 PM

verify apache error log to find the path to file which apache is looking for,
also you can do `su apache` (without quotes) as root and then try cd to the directory, to find whether there exists any issue with file permission for any parent directory.

nothe · 09-23-2012, 03:09 PM

Thank you!

It worked. I found out that it looked in the wrong directory. I've added 'Userdir users' which I've found in some tutorial on internet. That was offcourse wrong.

Now I got a new problem.

Just some of my php-files executes. Some just give 404 Not Found. Why?

unSpawn · 09-23-2012, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by nothe

Then when I changed chmod on the home or erik folder (do not know which one triggered faults) I no longer got error 403 but '404 Not found'. Even if I chmod home, erik and public_html to 777, I get '404 Not found' via http.

Regardless of whoever came up with it octal mode 777 is never right, never "the solution". So before you go off blithely wrecking your machine some more at least first change the access permissions back to what they were.

youcantoo_linuxguy · 09-23-2012, 07:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nothe

Thank you!

It worked. I found out that it looked in the wrong directory. I've added 'Userdir users' which I've found in some tutorial on internet. That was offcourse wrong.

Now I got a new problem.

Just some of my php-files executes. Some just give 404 Not Found. Why?

If you are getting the 404 error then check the path that you are using. Where ever you are telling the server the .php files is, is incorrect, otherwise Apache would not respond with the 404 error. Also as mention DO NOT change the permissions of the public_html to 777 the correct permissions for the directory is 755 Changing them to 777 just makes your server insecure. There is a reason that the public_html permissions is not set to 777