On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 17:40 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm trying to set up aliases to different html directories > under /usr/share/doc. I've run into a snag. My first one if for > syslog-ng. Here's the Apache2 config for it: > > bullet modules.d # cat 01_manuals.conf > Alias /manuals/syslog-ng "/usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html" > <Directory /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html> > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > > I restarted /etc/init.d/apache2 and poined my web browser to > www.espersunited.com/manuals/syslog-ng. It gave me a 403 Forbidden. I > checked the permissions from /usr all the way down > to /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html and all were 755. The > contents of /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html were 444, but I don't > think that's a problem. I looked at /var/log/apache2/error_log for the > source of the problem and found this: > > [Sat Dec 17 17:32:24 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] Directory index > forbidden by rule: /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html/ > > > I thought "Allow from all" meant that anyone could access the directory? > What am I doing wrong?
Nevermind. I went into /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1/html and created a symlink called "index.html" and then it worked... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
