I have redhat 6.2 and Apache/1.3.12 on it. But ------ browser displays this message ---------- Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/1.3.12 Server at 164.164.58.187 Port 80 followings are directive from httpd.conf and relevent information. If anyone can figure out where is the problem please guide me. ServerRoot "/etc/httpd" ---- the relevent permisssions are ----- drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 3 20:07 httpd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 4 19:47 conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28541 Aug 4 19:47 httpd.conf DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/html" ---- the relevent permisssions are ---- drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Aug 3 20:07 home drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 4 19:28 httpd drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 4 19:33 html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2511 Mar 2 00:07 index.html ---I have serverIP: 164.164.58.187, client IP: 164.164.58.146 --- ------ browser displays this message ---------- Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/1.3.12 Server at 164.164.58.187 Port 80 ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log ----/var/log/httpd/error_log displays --- [Sat Aug 5 12:19:22 2000] [error] [client 164.164.58.146] client denied by serv er configuration: /home/httpd/html --- /var/log/httpd/access_log displays following entries --- 164.164.58.146 - - [05/Aug/2000:12:19:22 +0530] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 269 User nobody Group nobody Options ExecCgi ------ following lines were giving error while starting httpd. I commented them and I was atleast able to run httpd. ---- #<Location /perl> # SetHandler perl-script # PerlHandler Apache::Registry # Options +ExecCGI #</Location> ----- I created one public_html directory in /home/surinder and had put index.html there. then i tried 164.164.58.187/~surinder but same error ----------------- UserDir public_html --------- this file I couldn't find anywhere ----- AccessFileName .htaccess ----- is it significant to put directory name in "" as in "/home/httpd/html"-- <Directory /> Options FollowSymlinks AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options Allow from all </Directory> <Directory "/home/httpd/html"> Options Includes Indexes FollowSymlinks AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options # This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can # override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo", # "AuthConfig", and "Limit" Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Files ~> AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> <Directory "/home/httpd/icons"> Options MultiViews Indexes AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory "/home/httpd/cgi-bin"> Options ExecCgi AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> --- access.conf and srm.conf are empty ( only comments are there) Thanks for Patience. Surinder - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu