Greetings Jirka and others, I need to better understand what security implications I may have created with changes made to the httpd.conf file. I appear to have success with my Vhosted Suse box! Can someone explain the changes I made to the Directory and Should I use the .htaccess file instead (not that I know how)? # forbid access to the entire filesystem by default <Directory /> Options None AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> # use .htaccess files for overriding, AccessFileName .htaccess # and never show them <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> It seems the default httpd.conf setting is set to deny everyone access to all files. I thought this was superseded by the permissions given later in the section for Vhosts. Regards, Albert Engle On Thursday 02 June 2005 23:56, Jirka Vejrazka wrote: > > can anyone explain why both of my vhosted web sites display FORBBIDEN? > > What's in your error log file(s) ? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx