On Saturday 21 June 2008, Tim wrote: >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 did have them set that way originally, and you are right, I should swap them back to a user. > >> 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/..... Nope, thru <http:me.homelinux.net:85/gene/> etc. >Or that you're browsing a file listing produced by the webserver? >e.g. http://localhost/gene/ Which also works. >> 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. This is the FF3 distribution tarball version. >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). Apache doesn't own these, and setroubleshooter is running, so I would be instantly advised of a selinux perms problem I believe. > >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. No, they aren't there. Thanks Tim. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <BenC> cerb: we subscribed you to debian-fight as the moderator <BenC> cerb: list rules are, 1) no nice emails, 2) no apologies -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
