Apache HTTPd giving 403 on files

[linuxlove]

I tried putting some new images in my /images/ directory. I did the usual of getting root access and then "chmod -Rv *" in the /images/ directory. Now if i type in the HTTP address of one of the new pictures, it gives me "403 Forbidden". Does anyone know what is going on or am I just not doing things right?

 

[cosam]

403 is usually down to file permissions and there may be details in the error log. Your chmod command doesn't look right; the actual permissions are missing. Something like chmod -R 755 images should be fine in most cases. Check that the user under which Apache is running also has access to all the parent directories (e.g. if you're talking about a directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/images, the user must be able to read /usr/local/apache/htdocs, /usr/local/apache and so on, right down to the root).

 

[linuxlove]

yes, you're right; i accidently left off the 755 in the CHMOD command. When I do it though, it says that "Permissions retained as 755" for the new pictures. If i try to go to them, it gives the 403 error.

 

[cosam]

What does the error log have to say about it?

 

[tingo]

@linuxlove:
since you used '*' (star) as the only wildcard, your probably changed the permission on the directory ('.') too.
Better check that:

ls -la .

and see what the entries for current ('.') and parent ('..') directory says.

 

[linuxlove]

[root@launchmodem images]# ls -la .
total 22924
drwxr-xr-x 20 server root 4096 Sep 29 22:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Sep 30 14:17 ..

 

[offensive_Jerk]

Are you typing in the full path to a picture, ie www.address.com/images/image.jpg
or are you just trying to browse the directory?
I know there is a setting to disable the directory browsing in case it is enabled.

 

[linuxlove]

Going to the URL, like if i want to see http://genericnet.ath.cx/images/vcr

 

[offensive_Jerk]

I can see the pictures in the images directory if I remove VCR from the url

http://genericnet.ath.cx/images/

I didn't see a VCR directory in there though, so it may be pointing to nowhere.

 

[kb2syd]

Well, to me that looks like a request to browse a directory. That may be disabled by settings within httpd.conf. There is nothing in the images directory called vcr either. Is this a virtual file/directory?

 

[linuxlove]

there is one there; i put it there

 

[offensive_Jerk]

Do you see the VCR directory when you ls in the images directory?

 

[kb2syd]

And what are the permissions on it? (ls -ld vcr)

 

[linuxlove]

Do you see the VCR directory when you ls in the images directory?

Yes, it's there.

And what are the permissions on it? (ls -ld vcr)

drwxr-xr-x 2 server server 4096 Sep 28 21:35 vcr