glytch

Hey all, It's time for another one of glitch's (probably obvious) questions.

I set up an old computer running RH9 (I had it laying around, and thought "why not?"). I've configured it to handle ssh, ftp, and httpd for now. I know this works because others can connect and see my default webpage. They can see the page just fine if I do anything simple ("server test", a simple php line, etc), but when I try to import pages I've done in the past, I get an Error 403, access denied, or unreadable by the server message. I doubt it's access problems, so my question is, why would Apache not be able to read this file? Do I need some sort of module or something?

Any info would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.

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HarmlessRabbit

probably ownership issues.

check the ownership of the small files you created:

ls -l *

note the ownership of those files against the ones that aren't working.

use chown to change the ownership. Usually, you want apache files to be owned by the "www" group.

chown yourname:www *

losthellhound

apache should have access, check chown and chmod.. make sure root doesnt own the file, and make sure the file isnt locked down

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glytch

Wow, you guys are great. I didn't even think about that, thanks a ton.

Quick question: Would it be okay to make apache the owner of the files? (the apache user, I mean.)

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yotta

You probably need to set the execute bit. Also, don't use RedHat 9. It no longer gets security updates.

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HarmlessRabbit

if you look at your /etc/httpd.conf file, you should see the user and group assigned to apache. It's best to make the files owned by the apache group (usually called "www") rather than the apache user.

In apache 2 the group is "www-data".

The apache user may have permission to execute certain files, so it's best not to make stuff in your document root owned by that user.