httpd 403 forbidden index.html question

Amuro-Ray2020 · 07-11-2007, 05:54 PM

I'm probably going to feel stupid after I hear the answer to this, but here goes. I'm trying to get httpd to host a website. I have my index.html in the /var/www/html directory, and httpd starts up fine. However, when I put "localhost" into a browser, it gives me the Apache sample website. So, I type in localhost/index.html, and I get 403 forbidden. Upon viewing the error_log for httpd, I see that index.html does not have the appropriate permissions on it.

Code:

[Mon Jul 09 19:44:52 2007] [error] [client 172.31.1.6] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied

Code:

[root@localhost html]# ll
total 32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 apache users   10 2007-07-09 19:06 CCNA1 -> CCNA1v4.0/
drwxrwxrwx 8 apache users 4096 2007-07-09 19:06 CCNA1v4.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 apache users   10 2007-07-09 19:08 CCNA2 -> CCNA2v4.0/
drwxrwxrwx 8 apache users 4096 2007-07-09 19:11 CCNA2v4.0
-rwxrwxrwx 1 apache users  191 2007-07-09 19:18 index.html

I have changed nothing in the httpd.conf. The index.html file points to other index.html files in the CCNA1v4.0 and CCNA2v4.0 directories. Don't know if that matters.

macemoneta · 07-11-2007, 07:00 PM

Do you have SELinux enabled? If so, you need to set the security context if you move a file (as opposed to copying it):

Code:

chcon system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/index.html

Alternatively you can restore the proper context to any files that need it with:

Code:

restorecon -v -r /var/www/html/