Apache: 403 Forbidden as root@localhost

[jsabarese]

i've got a fair amount of experience w/ httpd.conf from WinXP but here in Fedora, which i was expecting to be more intuitive actually seems to be giving me more trouble-- but i'm sure it's me and my inexperience w/ the O/S.

anyway-- i've had my ups and downs w/ apache so far on this system, from having no output, to directory browsing only, and now i'm at only /localhost/index.html in the browser... i've got another file in /var/www/html , test.html, which i'm linking to from the index.html file, but if i click to go to test.html from index.html, i get a 403 Forbidden error. is that not bizzare?

i followed a lot of this guide down to creating the www user, and the chmod stuff. from there, when i do the ll command, here's what i get (please compare to what's shown at the link provided)

[root@localhost www]# ll /home/www/site1/index.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 www users 170 Jun  2 23:06 /home/www/site1/index.html

can you get anything from that info? why is there a second line w/ more permissions listed in the guide? ideas?

[falko]

First, Fedora's default document root is /var/www/html, so you must put your HTML files there.
Then make sure that SELinux is disabled on your system.

[jsabarese]

hey, falko-- i don't know how i missed this-- i'll have to double check my forum settings (don't recall a notification)

anyway-- thanks for the info. had i not eventually figured it out from what i read here:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...xt_File_Labels
i believe you're the only one in several forums who pegged the problem. so-- belated thank you very much!

[falko]

Originally Posted by jsabarese

i'll have to double check my forum settings (don't recall a notification)

Yes, check your forum settings and make sure the notifications don't get sent to your Spam folder.