Re: [LI] Apache problem

["L.V.Gandhi" <lvgandhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sathya Rangaswamy wrote:
> 
> >
> > > If you are trying to launch a CGI program I did not see the ExecCGI. BTW just in
> > > case you missed it
> > > is apache running as root  or some other user who does not have proper access
> > > rights to these directories
> >
> > I was only trying to reach the html files soft linked. I have follow
> > symlinks. Second the dir is my own directory from where I am trying to
> > access.
> >
> 
> 1)Apache starts up as root and then sets uid to whatever user specified in the config file.
> 
> Lets say your umask is such that all the dirs you create do not have read permissions for
> 
> all, then the apache process cannot access your dir. Even if you are running the browser
> 
> on the same box, the user actually accessing the files is whoever apache is running as.

Permissions are there rwxrwxr-x for all the dirs.
 
> 2)
> 
> Do you have any aliases set that may causing apache to look elsewhere ?
I have not done anything on my own. Only min change as told by me.
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