[ubuntu-za] Permission denied in subfolders

[Helge Reikeras]

Hi Alf

As you say, this sounds very much like a permission/ownership problem. I  
would double-check that all files and sub-folders in /var/www has the same  
permissions and ownership as /var/www. On Ubuntu the owner should be  
'www-data'. If that doesn't work I would think it is a Apache  
configuration problem. Check /var/log/apache2/error.log for clues.

- Helge

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:47:10 +0200, Alf Stockton  
<straygrey at vodamail.co.za> wrote:

> On my laptop running Ubuntu 10.4 & Apache 2 & PHP Version
> 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.2 I am getting a problem as follows:-
>
> All my projects work fine as long as they are in /var/www but as soon as
> I attempt keeping them in their own folders under /var/www they fail.
> As an example if I move a project/application from /var/www to
> /var/www/NewFolder and browse to localhost/NewFolder I get :-
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /NewFolder on this server
> <http://www.apache.com/forums/troubleshooting/permission-denied-in-subfolders/#>.
>
>
> but if I leave it in /var/www/ it works fine. I initially suspected
> file/folder permissions but tried a number of setting all of which
> failed. I no suspect that this is anApache setting that is wrong, but
> what/which?
> Please tell me how to fix this.
>


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