Topic: apache document root

[baddog]

Could someone explain why I cannot view any documents in any subfolder in apache's document root?  I get a response that the document is forbidden. example... I create a web in document root and I create a folder in the same root and move my files into this dir.  Permissions remain the same, yet I cannot view them with a browser. I get "You are not authorized to view this page".  Can anyone help?

[rick]

do you get the same error message in your browser if you use https ?

[Tom Haynes]

What are the permissions of the created directory?

They should be 755.

[baddog]

Thanks for the reply Rick.  Interesting thought.  I did try after you suggested it, https access and it prompted me to continue and then I was displayed the same message as previously noted.  I should mention I am running phpmyadmin in a subdirectory within the doc root without any issues and I left httpd.conf at it's default

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[baddog]

Tom, Thanks for the reply.  To confirm, the permissions of the created directory are drwxrwxrwx.  the phpmyadmin directory has permissions set at drwxr-sr-x.

I set the permissions to 777 to eliminate any conflicts with permissions. I think it's a setting in httpd.conf, but I have no idea what I'm looking for.

Wes

[Jon Blakely]

baddog,

When you say you have created a directory in the document root, where exactly are you talking about.
SME server uses  /home/e-smith/files/primary/html
as its document root as per httpd.conf.
If you have it anywhere else you will need to create an alias entry in httpd.conf via the template system.

Jon

[baddog]

Jon, Thanks for the reply.

I have create a new dir called /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/new_dir as an example.  I create a index file in this dir or copy anything into it and I get the forbidden message when I try to view it.  I directly copied phpmyadmin directly into the document root resulting in the path /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/phpmy admin and I have no access issues with it.

Nevermind guys, I just solved the issue.  I had a created the above directory with a name equating the machine name.  Obviouly that's a no-no in the linux world.

To anyone watching this thread, thanks for the input!  

However, I do have one more query.  Any thoughts on a quick and easy way to user & password protect the above mentioned directory.  All I need is a point to the right direction.  I can figure out the details.

Wes

[Tom Haynes]

Try htaccess...

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nightspirit/e-smith-htaccess/

[baddog]

Thank you Tom!  

I looked over some references to htaccess and that will just what I need!

Wes