Permissions for web root

[David Bandel]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:07:04 -0600, Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
> I am trying to get my daughters school project up before my classes tonight so
> I don't have as much time to comb the docs.
> 
> I moved the web root from:
> 
> /var/www/localhost/htdocs
> 
> to:
> 
> /var/www/wetzker.org/htdocs
> 
> This is apache 2.0.52.  When I change the apache2.conf from:
> 
> DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs
> 
> to:
> 
> DocumentRoot /var/www/wetzker.org/htdocs
> 
> I get a permissions error in the browser:
> 
> "you don't have permission to access / on this server"

Below the DocumentRoot /var/www/blah

you have a:
<Directory /var/www/blah>
stuff here ...
</Directory

find the old one and fix it with the new directory

> 
> 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?
> 
>      -- Alma
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Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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