Apache Server configuration support - Newbie: access permission denied when changing DocumentRoot

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Newbie: access permission denied when changing DocumentRoot

Michiel Duijkers

2005-03-28, 6:24 pm

Hi!

I have looked all over the place to find a solution but am at a loss. I
am trying to change the DocumentRoot from its default
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/data"
to
DocumentRoot "/wwwroot"

however whenever I restart apache I get the following error in IE:

" You don't have permission to access / on this server."

I opened up everything I can think of, even gave it a good old chmod
777:
drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 512 Mar 28 21:15 wwwroot
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 59 Mar 28 20:34 /wwwroot/index.html

Can anyone give me clue? Its driving me mad!

Server version: Apache/2.0.50
Server built: Mar 28 2005 18:04:33
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

2005-03-30, 6:03 pm

try finding
<Directory "/usr/local/www/data">

and changing to

<Directory "/wwwroot">

these are the access rules etc for your webroot directory

hope this helps

Den

"Michiel Duijkers" <sorry@nowhere.nl> wrote in message
news:42486874$0$139$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Hi!
>
> I have looked all over the place to find a solution but am at a loss. I
> am trying to change the DocumentRoot from its default
> DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/data"
> to
> DocumentRoot "/wwwroot"
>
> however whenever I restart apache I get the following error in IE:
>
> " You don't have permission to access / on this server."
>
> I opened up everything I can think of, even gave it a good old chmod
> 777:
> drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 512 Mar 28 21:15 wwwroot
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 59 Mar 28 20:34 /wwwroot/index.html
>
> Can anyone give me clue? Its driving me mad!
>
> Server version: Apache/2.0.50
> Server built: Mar 28 2005 18:04:33
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE