Apache+Redhat install, can't get Apache to work

[sharkbitz]

http://209.208.83.17

That's the address of my system, it's pretty much a fresh install of redhat server install. If you try to go to that address, it give's you the forbidden page, and says you don't have permission to view "/", which is set to "/home/httpd/html" and the permissions are set correctly, as they are default.

Is anyone familiar with what's going on? If so, you will save me from my frustration.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Damaged]

This is a basic virtual host section for your httpd.conf file:

<VirtualHost 209.208.83.17>
FancyIndexing on
<Directory /home/httpd/html>
Options Includes Indexes
AllowOverride Indexes
order allow,deny
allow from all
</directory>
ServerName 209.208.83.17
DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html
ServerPath /home/httpd
</virtualhost>

Save the changes, then killall -1 httpd to get the server to reread the config file.

 

[sharkbitz]

Thanks for the input, we got it fixed. I had the sysadmin at work take a look at it, although it took him like 30min to fix it.

You were probably righ though, because here is all he did:

basically disabled this portion of httpd.conf

#<Files ~>
# Options Indexes
# AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options
# Order allow,deny
# Deny from all
#</Files>


Thanks again for your input

 

[Damaged]

I'm sure he did more than that. At a minimum he would have had to also change the Document Root and Server Path directives as well.

 

[Wizkid]

Yeah, I can't see why commenting out those lines would help with your problem...
Oh well, the good thing is that it works

 

[Damaged]

If what you said is true, would you be pissed if I &quot;hacked&quot; into your system?