hello: i'm experimenting name based virtual hosts and i have the following apache setup /opt/apache2/htdocs/index.html /opt/apache2/htdocs2/index2.html Now i have the following entry in my /opt/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf ====================================================================== NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.3:80 <VirtualHost 192.168.1.3:80> DocumentRoot "/opt/apache2/htdocs" </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost localhost:80> DocumentRoot "/opt/apache2/htdocs2" </VirtualHost> ====================================================================== the syntax check passes [root@sun apache2]# apachectl -t Syntax OK After restarting when i check the url http://192.168.1.3/ it gives content of htdocs/index.html however when i do http://127.0.0.1/ it gives me an error Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. The file permissions look ok to me.. out of ls -al /opt/apache2/ is below [root@sun apache2]# ls -al total 128 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Aug 31 15:44 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 31 16:21 htdocs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 16:12 htdocs2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 16:12 htdocs3 and [root@sun apache2]# ls -l htdocs/index.html htdocs2/index.html htdocs3/index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Aug 31 15:47 htdocs2/index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Aug 31 15:47 htdocs3/index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Nov 21 2004 htdocs/index.html on checking the error log i see the message [Thu Aug 31 16:29:46 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /opt/apache2/htdocs2/ Any reason why the documentroot of /opt/apache2/htdocs2 does not work fine. Thanks.. Yashesh --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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