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

Applications Web Development
1

Hello,

I've set all permissions for all on my Server folders:

chmod a+rwx ServerFolder

When I browse to localhost:8000 I receive the following error:

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

why ?

thanks

2

The owner of your webserver process must have the proper permissions.

Please post more details, cut-and-paste your error messages (use code tags).

3

I'm the owner of the server (it is apache on mac osx leopard)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /
on this server.</p>
</body></html>

thanks

4

You need to post the output of your process table showing the running httpd / apache processes and your file permissions.

5

what do you mean for "process table" ?
the error log file in apache ?

this are the permission of Sites folder (apache DocumentRoot)
drwxrwxrwx 9 aneuryzma staff 306 May 21 17:21 Sites

6

this is the error log

[Thu May 21 17:59:23 2009] [error] [client ::1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /Users/aneuryzma/Sites/
[Thu May 21 17:59:23 2009] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /Users/aneuryzma/Sites/favicon.ico

7

I would imaging you have directory indexes turned off in your configuration.

you would have:
Options -Indexes

and you would need to change it to

Options Indexes

8

this is the line in my config file:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

9

for example:

ps -aux | grep httpd

or

ps -aux| grep apache
10

if I type

sudo ps -aux | grep httpd
ps: No user named 'x'

if I type

sudo ps aux | grep httpd

aneuryzma  1784   0.0  0.0    75532    456 s000  S+    8:01PM   0:00.00 grep httpd
_www      1633   0.0  0.2    89032   4640   ??  S     5:34PM   0:00.18 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
root      1614   0.0  0.0    75532    924 s001  S+    5:33PM   0:00.17 pico /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
_www      1613   0.0  0.2    89032   4672   ??  S     5:33PM   0:00.33 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
_www      1610   0.0  0.2    89032   4672   ??  S     5:33PM   0:01.13 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
root      1609   0.0  0.3    87992   6468   ??  Ss    5:33PM   0:00.83 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND