[LeeG]

Hey all-

Very new to this forum, I just went through installing dev tools, compiling php, all to run phpicalendar - a prog I found on VT, anyway, when I try to connect to http://mycomputer/

I get the apache web page

when I try to connect to http://mycomputer/~myuser

I get FORBIDDEN you don't have permission to access /~myuser/ on this server.

What am I doing wrong?

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by LeeG:
I get FORBIDDEN you don't have permission to access /~myuser/ on this server.

What am I doing wrong?

Probably a permissions issue. You have to make sure that your home directory, and the "Sites" directory inside it, are readable and executable by everyone.

To do this, either use the "Get Info" box on your user folder and Sites folder and use the "Ownership and Permissions" section to set "Others" to "Read-Only", or go to the Terminal and do the following:

Code:
cd /Users
chmod a+rx your_user_folder
cd ~/
chmod -R a+rx Sites

That should do it. Remember there is an error log for apache here:

/var/log/httpd/error_log

You can look at that to help you figure out the errors you see.

[LeeG]

Yeah, fixed the permissions, that worked ok (no probs) - but still no luck, then I realized the instructions in phpicalendar which said to point the browser to <http://yourcomputer/~user/phpicalendar> were not quite correct, you need to point it to: <http://yourcomputer/~user/phpicalendar/index.php>. Supposedly there is a way to get the apache server to know that index.php is a default (I think its in the httpd.conf file) but for now I just use the longer url...thanks for the help

Lee

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by LeeG:
Supposedly there is a way to get the apache server to know that index.php is a default (I think its in the httpd.conf file)

This is easily fixed. Look in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf for something like this:

Code:
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

Change it to be like this:

Code:
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>

[mzllr]

Originally posted by LeeG:
Supposedly there is a way to get the apache server to know that index.php is a default (I think its in the httpd.conf file) but for now I just use the longer url...thanks for the help

Lee

yeah, look for the 'DirectoryIndex' in your httpd.conf and add index.php to the end (with a space, no comma).

[php]
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>
[/php]

then restart apache..

[LeeG]

and I would restart apache...how?....

(sorry, I do lots of mac stuff, but this terminal/web serving stuff i am a total newb at)

Lee

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by LeeG:
and I would restart apache...how?....

(sorry, I do lots of mac stuff, but this terminal/web serving stuff i am a total newb at)

No problem, the only way to learn is to ask.

Via the GUI:

Go the Sharing PrefPane in System preferences. Uncheck Web Sharing, then check it again.

Via the command line:

Code:
sudo apachectl restart

[LeeG]

Thanks so much, you guys are great, I really appreciate the help, I AM learning (slowly!), just finished installing openoffice too..really nice software...

Thanks again,

Lee