Re: FORBIDDEN

Dhaval, I think you've already had this question answered. When you create a file on a unix system, it has privileges set up automatically for it, depending on whether the user (you), the user's group, or the entire system should be allowed to read, write, and/or execute the file. There are two ways this happens. The first is through the umask command, which determines the default privileges for each new file in the current directory. The second is through chmod, which overrides those defaults. Any file or any directory that you want to be "on the web" or visible to a web browser must be readable by EVERYBODY. You are probably working in directories which have their umasks set so that only allow the user to read new files. If you delete a directory that had world-readble access privileges and recreate, it's possible that the new directory is no longer world-readable. Try chmod o=r * and see what happens. Oh, and you'll have to do this for .htaccess and your other "dot files" as well. Then read the man pages for chmod and umask to see what's really going on. HTH, Matt ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Leingang http://www.math.rutgers.edu/ Rutgers University leingang@math.rutgers.edu Department of Mathematics "This signature needs no quote." On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Dhaval Desai wrote: > Hey Guyz... > > I am having this very unusual problem with apache. I > wanted to make a particular directory called admin > under htdocs password protected...but couldn't get > taht to work..I was confused.. > > SO I deleted apache directory from my linux box and > also php directory. > I planned to reinstall it. After reinstalling I found > out that the problem of password protecting the > directory was with APACHE. > > Any directory I create under APACHE show FORBIDDEN..on > requesting it from the browser. > I didn't touch the httpd.conf file after reinstalling > APACHE.......but the problem is that Even if I make > any new directories under apache's htdocs > directory..they show me Forbiddeen when I acces them > as: > > > http://127.0.0.1/Directory > > > > Can anybody tell me what the problwm could be and how > it can be solved... > > > Thanx a lot! > Dhaval Desai > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > --hgkabefflpblfilmgmbm > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="php-general_22423.ezm" >