Permissions for web root

[A. Khattri]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> I get a permissions error in the browser:
>
> "you don't have permission to access / on this server"
>
> The owner of the directories (localhost and wetzker.org) is root with
> permissions of 755 for directories and 644 for files.
>
> What do I need to tweak to get apache to cough up the web site?

You probably dont have an index.html file and Apache is configured to not
allow directory listings by default. You need to either create index.html
or add "+Indexes" to your Options tag in httpd.conf.

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