[simonmartin]

I'm trying to get apache started on my box and failing miserably.

I have disabled Brickhouse which I use as a firewall. This is confirmed by the fact that the firewall settings in system prefs are available. I have switched that firewall off also.

I have ticked the box in 'sharing' named 'personal web sharing' and hit 'start'.

If I try to access the index.html page in 'shared' folder using <http://192.168.0.2/~simon2/index.html>(where 192.168.0.2is my internal ip address and simon2 is my short username) I get an error saying i don't have permission to access that page on the server.

I have tried to access the page on a win box on the same network also, same result.

Can someone get me past this please?

Many thanks.

Simon

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Try http://127.0.0.1/ first, that will give you the default Apache page. If you don't see that, then something's not working.
By the way, if you do http://127.0.0.1/~simon2/index.html , that index.html page is in your Sites folder.

[simonmartin]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
Try http://127.0.0.1/ first, that will give you the default Apache page. If you don't see that, then something's not working.
By the way, if you do http://127.0.0.1/~simon2/index.html , that index.html page is in your Sites folder.

GoGoReggieXPowars,

Thanks for the quick reply...

I *can* see the default apache page but when I try to reach my index page in my sites folder (your second link) I get:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~simon2/index.html on this server.Apache/1.3.27 Server at simonmartins-computer.local Port 80

Make any sense of all this?

This ought to be really simple...

Thanks

Simon

[megus]

Check the file permission priviliges on your index-file. It could be that it is set to not allowing others to read it.

//megus

[simonmartin]

Originally posted by megus:
Check the file permission priviliges on your index-file. It could be that it is set to not allowing others to read it.

//megus

The file was in fact set to 'others/no access' but setting this to 'others/read&write' still makes no difference

Any other suggestions?

Please...

Simon

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

megus sounds on the right track, it is possibly a permissions issue.
Alas, I'm not on my Mac at the momement, so I can't quickly tell you where to go to change things. It's all from memory at this point.

[simonmartin]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
megus sounds on the right track, it is possibly a permissions issue.
Alas, I'm not on my Mac at the momement, so I can't quickly tell you where to go to change things. It's all from memory at this point.

The ~/sites/index.html page is now set to 'others/read&write' and I have repaired permissions with disk utility...

Still no good.

Simon

[megus]

Checked the Sites-folder yet?
It too needs to be set up with reading permission for others.

[Edit: And while you're at it check your Home-folder to ]

//megus

[simonmartin]

Originally posted by megus:
Checked the Sites-folder yet?
It too needs to be set up with reading permission for others.

[Edit: And while you're at it check your Home-folder to ]

//megus

'Sites' folder is set to 'others/read&write'

Surely not the Home folder... :-)

Still no go.

In any case, surely I should be able to open this file myself, in my own home folder without permission issues?

More please...

Simon

[megus]

Not read/write! Read only.

Here are my settings for permissions:

megus (my home-folder):
Owner: megus (Me)
Access: Read & Write
Group: Staff (Me)
Access: Read only
Others: Read only

Sites-folder:
Owner: megus (Me)
Access: Read & Write
Group: Staff (Me)
Access: Read only
Others: Read only

Sorry if I'm repeating myself. Just want to clarify so everything is ok so far.

//megus

[simonmartin]

Double post

[simonmartin]

Originally posted by megus:
Not read/write! Read only.

Here are my settings for permissions:

megus (my home-folder):
Owner: megus (Me)
Access: Read & Write
Group: Staff (Me)
Access: Read only
Others: Read only

Sites-folder:
Owner: megus (Me)
Access: Read & Write
Group: Staff (Me)
Access: Read only
Others: Read only

Sorry if I'm repeating myself. Just want to clarify so everything is ok so far.

//megus

Megus,

I set things up the same as you and that did the trick!

But I don't understand why I can't set my home folder to 'others/no access' but the sites folder to 'others/read only'

That seems to me to be the most secure.

I'll have to experiment a bit.

Many thanks anyway! :-)

Simon

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Glad to see it's working! Just wait until you start adding PHP and other fun things

[simonmartin]

Originally posted by megus:
Not read/write! Read only.

Here are my settings for permissions:

megus (my home-folder):
Owner: megus (Me)
Access: Read & Write
Group: Staff (Me)
Access: Read only
Others: Read only

Sites-folder:
Owner: megus (Me)
Access: Read & Write
Group: Staff (Me)
Access: Read only
Others: Read only

Sorry if I'm repeating myself. Just want to clarify so everything is ok so far.

//megus

Megus,

Sure enough, to host a site I have to expose my entire home folder, at least to 'read only'. I think that is really stupid.

I ought to be able to set my Home folder to 'others/no access' but override this for the sites folder which should be set at 'others/read only'.

Oh well...

Thanks for your help.

Simon

[megus]

Well, glad to hear you've got it working!

Regarding access/noaccess, see the folder hierarchy as a building with doors leading to other doors behind it. If you don't have access to one door (for instance your "home-door"). You wont even see which doors are behind it.

That said for security reasons, don't put anything at the root folder of your home-directory. Use the folders within it and you should be safe.

Instead of using your sites-folder within your home-folder. You could just use the webservers root folder at /Library/WebServer/Documents/. If you're the administrator of the machine that is.

Happy websharing!

//megus

[simonmartin]

Originally posted by megus:
Well, glad to hear you've got it working!

Happy websharing!

//megus

Megus,

Can you have a look at my new thread <http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=140334>?

Still need some help...

Thanks:-)

Simon