Reply to: Apache 403 error driving me bananas

[lilelvis2000]

That's the annoying bit. You get it working and you don't know how.
So next time you have a similar problem...you have no idea how to resolve it.

I wonder if the browser cache was also causing it to appear not to be working? I have that problem when I login to my router. It says it failed when it really hasn't. Just the browser cache F***ing things up.

[northernladuk]

Pbkac imho hth kthxbi

[suityou01]

Probably the "restarted Apache" bit - I often make changes to Apache configs, forget to restart it, and wonder why they haven't worked

I was restarting apache after every single change.

[eek]

Seems like a typical sc-sk problem....

[NickFitz]

It's now working. Not a clue what I did differently. The last thing I did was put "" round the paths and restarted apache. Then it worked. So I took the quotes out and it's still working.

Probably the "restarted Apache" bit - I often make changes to Apache configs, forget to restart it, and wonder why they haven't worked

[suityou01]

It's now working. Not a clue what I did differently. The last thing I did was put "" round the paths and restarted apache. Then it worked. So I took the quotes out and it's still working.

[suityou01]

Anyone else wondering what critical piece of information is suddenly going to be shared which makes the solution simple and obvious?

Really great. Thanks.

[TheFaQQer]

Anyone else wondering what critical piece of information is suddenly going to be shared which makes the solution simple and obvious?

[suityou01]

I'm not stumped just can't be bothered to help ungrateful s when they are in point scoring mode...

And how have I been ungrateful? Point scoring mode?

Get back on the meds.

[eek]

I'm not stumped just can't be bothered to help ungrateful s when they are in point scoring mode...

[suityou01]

This is an alias, not a virtual host.

Looks like everyone is as stumped as me.

[lilelvis2000]

A what now?

I'm familiar with the way Ubuntu has configured Apache.

usually the config files for site are put into
/etc/apache2/sites-available

but apache loads only the sites in
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled

the files in site-enabled are just symbolic links to the files in sites-available

Apache provides a small script which does the work to enable or disable sites
sudo a2ensite site-name

then
sudo service apache2 reload

That is what I use on Ubuntu.

[suityou01]

So you can't see index.html as apache user?

If I su to apache user I can cat the file and see the contents.

[suityou01]

This maybe a completely stupid of me. but you did enable the site and restart apache?

A what now?

[lilelvis2000]

This maybe a completely stupid of me. but you did enable the site and restart apache?