Hi All

Mandrake 9.2

New to linux install and Mandrake, but enjoying the challenge - sorta....

Created one user account when installing mandrake - 'fred'

I created a public_html directory for fred at:

/home/fred/public_html

and I plugged in a placeholder index.html file

However, when I try to call up fred's placeholder page from another computer on the network, I get a Forbidden Error - 403

This other computer is allowed access to the mandrake computer and so far can access the mandrake machine via ftp and ssh.

Would anyone know how to approach this?

I would also like to get cgi working within /home/fred/public_html/cgi-bin

Many thanks

chmod the /home and the /home/fred 711, and /home/fred/public_html should be 744

Thanks very much. That solved part of the problem

When I now try to reach http://192.168.2.6/~fred I don't get the Forbidden error, but now I get this error:

I have two computers that are connected through a belkin router. One computer is a winxp machine, and the other is the mandrake box.

The router has assigned the IP of 192.168.2.6 to the mandrake, and it is the mandrake machine that has the /~fred user and page

The error that I mention above occurs when I am trying to reach the /~fred page from the winxp box.

However, if I type in 192.168.2.6/~fred in the mandrake box, the /~fred page is displayed AND the IP changes from 192.168.2.6 to 127.0.0.1

1. why does it change to 127.0.0.1 ?

2. why is the connection refused when coming from the winxp machine? I am able to access the mandrake machine from the win box via ftp and ssh okay.

Thanks for your help

You may have some funky permissions in your http.conf file ... boy thats weird. Check that to make sure you allow all connections (esp in the /home/*/public_html section) and also take a glance in your /etc/hosts file to make sure nothing funky is going on there either

I'll take a look and report back.

Many thanks for your help

I have the same problem since I upgraded to Mandrake 9.2. I think it might be related to the presence of "~" in the address, because all sites I was not able to connect (including my own) have an "~".
Please let me know if you found out the answer to this annoying problem.
Beny

I got it to work, but I'm not sure exactly what made the difference.

Here is what I did:

1. I reinstalled MD 9.2, but this time I made the security level "Standard"

I had been using "Higher"

- None
- Standard
- Higher
- Paranoid

(I "think" that those are the right terms. I'm at a different machine at the moment.)

In the Higher mode, I would add my win box IP as an Except IP to the hosts.deny file, but it kept getting over-written each time I booted

2. You have to create the public_html directory and put an index.html file in there. Yeah, I know this is total dummy stuff, but I never used MD. So, I wasn't sure what was what:

/home/fred/public_html/index.html

3. The ~ works fine:

192.168.2.6/~fred/index.html

4. I also found out that you have to include the closing forward slash. Otherwise, I would get an error:

192.168.2.6/~fred

............"uh, couldn't connect to 127.0.0.1"...............

But, when I closed it, it worked fine:

192.168.2.6/~fred/

5. Also, I think I'm remembering that if I was calling a index.php page, I had to include the full url all the way through the page:

192.168.2.6/~fred/index.php

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I still have a lot to learn. I don't feel comfortable with this yet, but I'm glad each time I make progress. I must have installed/re-installed about 8 or 9 times so far. I would love to get familiar enough with it to have a fully working linux office system.

HTH