[vox-tech] Re: quick apache question

Charles McLaughlin cmclaughlin at ucdavis.edu
Sun Feb 26 16:40:19 PST 2006


Richard Crawford wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 11:39, Cylar Z wrote:
> 
> 
>>---------------
>>Forbidden
>>
>>You don't have permission to access /~myuser on this
>>server.
>>
>>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered
>>while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the
>>request.
>>-----------
> 
> 
> If I recall, you're using Fedora Core 4, correct?  If so, chances are SELinux 
> is installed and running (enabled by default).  You could either disable 
> SELinux, or change the permissions -- the "context", in SELinux-speak -- on 
> the user's HTML directories to allow the httpd daemon to actually view those 
> directories.  Try:
> 

snip

This is good advice.  I've also run into this and it's pretty 
frustrating when you're not used to it.

Charles


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