Ok the php file am accessing and the directory it's in has the following permissions

owner (logged in) read/write
group same
others read

But I keep getting the forbiden access error when i try accessing it locally via either 192.168.0.2 or 127.0.0.1

Also it's not just php files it's html files as well. It's a fresh LAMP setup on fedora core 3 with apache 2.0.54.

I have set the document root to /home/steven/web (exactly as it is in httpd.conf) and i have set the directory permission tag within the httpd.conf. I dont have a .htaccess file either.

chmod 755 to your file ,but i think this is not a permission error, what errors u r getting in your apache error logs.

[Fri Jun 17 14:25:25 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /test.php denied
[Fri Jun 17 14:25:25 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied

why? I did the chmod command on my php file as well GRRRR. Like i said the directory permissions are fine arent they

ya chmod to 755 it will work try ....

geez it was becos the /home/steven by default can only be accessed by steven. It works now yay!!