you could change your symlink to /var/www/html instead of /var/www/html/web so that the default points to your files. there are many other options but you would need a better understanding of apache virtual hosts to work around this. Dave Gutteridge wrote: > It turns out that the reason I couldn't access files at localhost was > because the httpd service was not started. I've started it, and I can > access a test file that is in the /var/www/html directory. > > However, the directory /var/www/html/web directory, which is a symlink > to /home/dave/web can not be accessed. Any file within that directory > that I try to access, says that I do not have permission to access that > file. > > I tried changing the permissions on both the web symlink and the source > directory to 777, but that had no effect. > > Why am I not able to access this directory via my local apache server? > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos