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Apache and 403 forbidden error
After installing apache with rh6 i can see the default page... however i can not get to a user's directory... i created a public_html directory with the correct permissions... however if i try to get to it <address>/~username/index.
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After installing Redhat 6.2, I was left with a httpd.conf file containing the following entry:
<Files ~>
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
In this case, the forbidden 403 error occurred regardless of file protections. Removing these lines from the httpd.conf solved the problem, of course.
Now, how did these lines get in the conf file to begin with?
<Files ~>
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
In this case, the forbidden 403 error occurred regardless of file protections. Removing these lines from the httpd.conf solved the problem, of course.
Now, how did these lines get in the conf file to begin with?
The default RedHat permision will not allow it. So, you will need to do the following:
# to allow folks other than yourself and folks in your group to go down your home dir
chmod 701 /home/digital_100
# to allow folks other than yourself and folks in your group to go down your publc_html folder/dir
chmod 701 /home/digital_100/public_h
# to allow folks other than yourself and folks in your group to read index.html
chmod 604 /home/digital_100/public_h
To apply this kind of permission change for all other stuffs in public_html to rwx-----x for directory and rw----r-- for files:
find ~/public_html -type f -exec chmod 604 {} \;
find ~/public_html -type d -exec chmod 701 {} \;