On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have setup a softlink from /var/www/html/gene/linkname > That points to another directory here, owned by a different user. All > that has been chown'ed to apache:apache as I just noted some of it was > owned by root. For what it's worth, it's not a good idea to chown webserveable files to Apache. That'll (usually) let the webserver write all over them. The usual way to webserve files is to have someone else own them, and make the directories and files world readable. > I can goto that page with FF3 and display the contents as a file > listing just fine. Do you mean you're browsing the file systems directly, not through a web server? e.g. file:///var/www/html/gene/..... Or that you're browsing a file listing produced by the webserver? e.g. http://localhost/gene/ > I cannot actually view, from a web browser, any of the text files > there displayed, or start a download of any of the compressed files > that may be there. > > Just for grins I fired up FF-2.0.0.14, and it works fine. Is there > some option I need to enable in FF3? Using the Firefox 3 that came with Fedora 9 (current update to it), I've not come across any cases where it won't download something from my webservers that the older Firefox would. What sort of things are you trying to download? Are they anything that might appear to be like a Firefox add-on, which might be blocked by preferences? (Though I'd expect a warning, rather than silent blocking.) If it weren't for things working in one browser, but not another, I'd be suspecting a SELinux issue (the contexts of your files not being webservable), or plain old permissions issues (files being world readable, and directories, and all parent directories, being world readable). Another thing that springs to mind: Is it downloading them, but doing it in the background? (No indication that it's doing a download, no indication that it's done.) Have a look in your downloads directory. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
