Help with a 403 forbiden error

Hi!

I just recently installed centOS and went ahead with the following commands:



I also went ahead and installed webmin and later found out that any folders or .php files that i placed in /var/www/html would not work and I would get a 403 error

I tried messing with chmod and chmoded the /html folder to 777, didn't work so I chmod'ed the whole /var/www/html folder and still no luck

what do you guys suggest? could it be something with the php.ini?

Hope someone can help thanks!

It was only php files?

It seems so to me, I went ahead and created index.html with VI and it worked fine, any ideas as to what it could be?

Typically you want the served content to be the instance owner; like the instance is run as say 'webserver' then each file needs to be owned by that user. Also when you chmod a dir you have to inherit the mod with a -R flag.

The command "man chmod" is your friend. Also, NEVER make your content 777.

how could I make it so each file is owned by the person running as lets say "server". I know how to use chmod and I already messed with the file permissions, what would you like me to chmod the folders to? I currently have them to 755, should I change that?

P.S: This is not on a live webserver, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

Best Regards,
Francisco

What do you run httpd as? webinst? Then change ownership of files to webinst.

chown is the command. Am I missing your question?

If the webserver user owns the files, then the webserver user has the rights given to the owner of the file. It's far better to have these owned by a different user and just set permissions so the web server can access them with group or public permissions.

did you install php-common?