Forbidden - you dont have permission to access / on this server

neocontrol · 05-14-2006, 11:46 AM

Hello all,

As the title says, that's what i get when try to acceess my server. Here's the story.

I had apache up and working before all this happened. I was going to put a new site up. So i created my site, dumped it to a folder. And then moved it over to the /apache directory which is the directory that apache serves from.

No go.

I read somehwere it could be a problem when apache files get moved instead of copied. so to correct this. I totaly wiped out the apache directory, and recreated it. and copied everything over. nope still doesnt work.

checked my config file. nothing changed there. checked owners, and permissions, nothing changed there.

I dont know where to go from here. help.

thanks in advance.

bathory · 05-14-2006, 04:24 PM

What is your DocumentRoot and what are the directories (full path) of your sites? Perhaps you can also post the relevant parts of your httpd.conf here.

Regards

neocontrol · 05-14-2006, 04:36 PM

Oh man, I thought I posted it but I guess it didn't go thru. I found my error. I think it had to do when I moved everything from one directory to the other instead of copying it. I'm not 100%, but I read something about that from another website.

I did a couple things at once so I'm not totaly sure what fixed it but here's what I did, it may help someone in the future?

First I just wiped out my /apache directory. That was the directory that I made to have apache serve from.

I then took my backups and COPIED them over to the /apache directory. I made sure that my httpd.conf file pointed correctly to /apache.

I then completly stopped the httpd daemon and started it. I tried just restarting it, but it didn't take.

After that, I tried it again, and all seemed ready to go.

On a side note, I knew things where not right, as I have samba setup over here on my home network for ease of use to transfer and update my website. When I was updating, after I moved everything, I wasn't able to make changes, or let alone touch anything that I had moved. I never had that problem before, but again, I moved things from the linux command line instead of my normal windows/samba transfer.

Thanks to all,