Found the problem. I needed the / in back of the datasheets. Art mike.eklund wrote:

I believe that you must have execute permissions on directories in order to access their contents.

Mike Eklund Delta Research, Inc.

-----Original Message----- From: Art Fore [mailto:art.fore@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:10 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Apache2 & suse 9.2 accessing a user directory

I had received a suggestion from the list (email is on other machine at home) to use Alias /datasheets /home/user/datasheets in the httpd.conf file.

Tried this with no success. Also added the following Direcctive

<Directory /home/user/datasheets> Options All (Also tried None) AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory>

All I get is

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /datasheets on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Directory permissions are rwxr-xr-- which should give appache read access if I am not mistaken.

Has anyone any suggestions or examples of what files to modify to get this to work?

/datasheets only contains .pdf files and I want to be able to select a file from a web browser.

Art