Sorry it's taken so long but at last I can contribute !
Michael Culverhouse. Currently I have three hats, Linux advocate, Contract
Unix Sys Admin. System Support Manager for Internet co.
I have two school age children and initially came to the list to find out
what I could do for local schools.
My childrens own school (junior) were totally bemused when I suggested I
could install Linux for them at no cost. They said they would let me know.
Anyway onto Apache. First rule 'check the logs'.
You need to look at the httpd.conf file to see where the error log lives.
Default, when installing from source, is /usr/local/apache/logs.
Another useful command is `locate error_log` assuming slocate is run on a
regular basis otherwise try `find / -name error_log`.
This file should give you the information you need to fix the problem (if
you have the right level of logging switched on also!).
Hope that helps.
Mike
btw It feels good to have come out from lurking :), Also I'm glad to see the
OSE discussion moved on. It was taking forever to catch up with the mail :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Harris
Hi all,
Can anyone offer some hints as to how to make public_html folders available for access by apache?
I'm trying to set up a server in which users can create html files within a folder (eg: /alanh/public_html) which can be made available on the school intranet.
I've checked the folder permissions and they seen ok, httpd.conf seems ok but I get the following errors when trying to access the test html file via lynx :-
lynx 192.168.1.10/~alanh
!Alert: http/1.1 403 Forbidden!
I'd like to get this working - any hints / help / etc?
I've tried this under Suse 7 and Red Hat 6.1 with the same result so it seems like i'm making a fundamental and possibly obvious error here....
Alan