[wellylug] Setting up a simple web server
John Durham
johndurh at spunge.org
Tue Aug 9 11:18:53 NZST 2005
I'm assuming with permissions at755, it didn't allow drag and drop
copying. With 777 it did.
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:44 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> David Antliff wrote:
> >> There were no complaints from the system, yet when I try to add the
> >> files in the html folder, it complains I don't have permission to do
> >> that.
> >
> > I suspect it's not rejecting the instruction to change the permissions -
> > it's more likely some sort of misunderstanding about how the permissions
> > apply.
>
> Check the error.log to see what actually happened - was it the case thet
> the web server couldn't read the files (i.e. permissions that can be
> fixed with chmod) or was it because the web server refuses to serve that
> directory to the network (i.e. <Directory> or <Location> statements in
> the httpd.conf)?
>
> Sounds to me like it's the latter case - but you should check the
> error.log to be sure.
>
> -jim
>
>
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