dear friends,

i'm using fedora 9 on my hp laptop. i created a folder named A inside a folder called pcnation in /var/www/html/. i made a php script that downloads the file uploaded to A folder. when i run the php script, a 403 forbidden message appeared in the page.

how can i solve this problem so that i can enable downloading of file?

thank you for your kind attention.

God bless!

My first guess is that the web server software does not have permissions to access your folder A. If you have created as a common user and the web server is not set to act on behalf of that user, then you have to give write permissions to directory A, something like:
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thanks gergeley89!

i actually tried chmod 777 /var/www/html/pcnation/A and all the paths going to folder A. but the problem persists. i tried your suggestion chmod a+w /var/www/html/pcnation/A. but still the problem is there.

may i show you the error log where folder upload is equivalent to folder A.

127.0.0.1 - - [23/Feb/2009:17:30:14 +0800] "GET /pcnation/upload/ HTTP/1.1" 403 328 "http://localhost/pcnation/pcnation_customer.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008043010 Fedora/3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9 Firefox/3.0b5"