Make sure /usr/doc is world readable (drwxr-xr-x)

On 27 Mar, buck wrote:
> Thanks for the help, I have read the manual that comes with Apache
> especially the sections about mod_alias and the Alias directive and
> find it totally confusing.
> So I did a 'ln -s /usr/doc /usr/local/www/doc' set up a link to
> http://localhost/doc and Im now getting the error msg
> 'HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden' do I have to use samba to share
> this directory?
> 
> Cheers Buck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 26 March 2000 16:58
> 
> For the entire /usr/doc tree you can use either the alias directive as
> suggested by the other person who replied to this message, or you can
> also 'ln -s /usr/doc /usr/local/www/doc'. requests for
> http://localhost/doc will then get you a directory listing of the
> /usr/doc tree (unless you are very industrious and create an index.html
> with links to whatever you actually want access to in that tree).
>
> On 26 Mar, buck wrote:
>
>> Its not just man pages, if possible the hole of /usr/doc I would like to
>> have available.
>> Do I have to move /usr/doc/* to /usr/local/www ? /usr/local/www is my
>> document root.

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