---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joshua Slive <jslive@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Oct 24, 2005 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Flag to enable reading plain ASCII To: bengard@xxxxxxxxx Please send your message to the list. Thanks. Joshua. On 10/24/05, Ben Gardiner <bengard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks, Joshua, for responding. I haven't *done* anything yet. What > I want is for callers to be able to read both .html files and plain > ascii. I have about 16,000 plain ascii files (from ages ago when it > was a BBS) which were readable at the previous site. > > I moved everything to godaddy, where I have a virtual dedicated > server. And now the caller gets an error message "You don't have the > pemissions to read (name of file or directory/file)" I have checked > the permissions, they are all readable by outsiders. > > Next thing, I thought, is to re-configure the Apache server to clear > up the problem. I have not done anything (yet) to the Apache > configuration. > > My question is what do I need to do in order to enable callers to read > the plain ascii files? Is this something that Apache can do, or is my > problem in another area? > > It used to work, and work fine. What the caller saw was a page of > directories, and clicking on any of them would produce a subpage of > either files or directories. (I mean only the names. The caller had > to click on a name to get the actual file.) > > I was assuming that the error message about permissions meant that > httpd was unable to deliver the file or move the caller to the > directory. > > The permissions are _rwxr_xr_x on the files, and > drwxrwxrwx on the directories. Am I wrong about those permission settings? > > Any help would be much appreciated. The page was getting 5,000-10,000 > hits a day in the past. > > Ben > > On 10/24/05, Joshua Slive <jslive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 10/24/05, Ben Gardiner <bengard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Among the many flags in httpd.conf I cannot figure out what would > > > enable the server to read both HTML and plain ASCII. This is pretty > > > basic but I have not done it before -- somebody else did it, at a > > > previous site, and is no longer available to tell me how. > > > > > > Can anyone tell me which flag to open and what to say or change? > > > > Nothing needs to be changed. Apache doesn't care about the contents of files. > > > > Perhaps if you explained exactly what you tried and exactly what the > > result was, we could better help. It always helps to include relevant > > log extracts. > > > > Joshua. > > > > > -- > From: Ben Gardiner > Return address: bengard@xxxxxxxxx > -- From: Ben Gardiner Return address: bengard@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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