i am gettign and error 403 from an apache server 1.3.28 . i have had this working for a while, the last thing i did was copy my entire /root/ contents to /var/www/html by mistake.

my document root is /var/www/html
my perms for /var/www/html are 755, recursively
/var/www/html/ * is all owned by root:root

please help

by the way i even get error 403 forbidden when i try to get to a page that does not even exist.
like

/mysite.com/nopagehere.html

this gives error 403

Try /var/www/htdocs.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

i have my site in /var/www/html , what do you mean by "try /var/www/htdocs"

i just copied the httpd.conf.default to httpd.conf, so as to reset teh default options. i still get 403 forbidden could this be a user or filesystem error on my part??

I had this problem as well but then the documentroot was in /mnt/windows/ (which I got fixed working after creating an link), but in your case the solultion is simple, change the owner and group to the one that is controling the httpd deamon..

if that doesn't work then check teh configuration files (I had 3 of them here, httpd2.conf, commonhttpd.conf, httpd.conf¸ each in diff dirs...) and check if the file names are entered correctly, and yes it does whine about capitals

i have docroot mounted on an ext2 partions (same as /). i have everything owned by root and the apache runs as user "nobody". i didnt make a changes to the httpd.conf lately so i doubt that is it. io did however copy some file includeing a folder called "System Volume Information" to the /var/www directory on accident. trhis was orginially in my /mnt/windows (or similar dir). i dont know waht happed. i hate to admit this but i just restarted teh server and it works now. i hate that the solution. to anyone reading this post haveing the same problem, i would suspect that there was some error with the filesystem. any insite on this issue would be interesitng, thanks. you guys can check out teh site now if interested.