Apache Permissions

[mr. k]

Why is http://kao.sytes.net/mt/ forbidden when everything else in my server root is not? I gave sufficient permissions to the directory, and I just cant figure it out. Can anyone help here? I probably just need a fresh mind to take a look at the problem.
http://kao.sytes.net/test/ works just fine, just as the rest of my files, just not the mt directory.

 

[kilowatt]

First off, realize that apache requires 'execute' permissions on directories and files to show them to the user on the other end. Not just read. I found this out the hard annoying way.

If a

chmod 755 -R mt/

does not fix it, check your apache config file. It is possable to restrict various paths on a per-directory bassis. Pretty hard to do accidently though.

On Mac OS X, this file is defaultly located in:
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf

keep in mind that apple backs up your httpd.conf when you run certain software updates, and puts a rather bland httpd.conf in its place - this can also screw you over at times.

 

[mr. k]

Yeah, I solved the problem ( I still can't figure out what it was, It wasn't that my permissions didn't let apache execute, I tried both 775 and 777 and still it didn't work. Mabye it was that I restricted directory access in my httpd.conf but about an hour earlier I had a different mt directory in the same place that worked just fine, but all I did was change the name and it fixed the problem.
Whatever!

 

[uoba]

Like... whatever...