Alias issues in Apache 2.0

[Richard Crawford]

I'm missing something fundamental in how Apache works, I think.

In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, I have the following Alias declaration:

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Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"

<Directory "/var/www/icons">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from All
</Directory>


Alias /pictures/ "/var/shared/shared_files/Pictures/"

<Directory "/var/shared/shared_files/Pictures">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from All
</Directory>

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Now, the permissions on the two directories, /var/www/icons/ 
and /var/shared/shared_files/Pictures are identical.  When I browse to 
http://server/icons/, the files in that directory display as expected.  
However, when I browse to http://server/pictures/, I get a 403-Forbidden 
error.  I've messed with file permissions and with the access elements of the 
Alias directive, but the permissions on the two directories are identical.  
I've looked through the documentation of the Alias module at 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html, but I can't find 
anything that I'm missing.

I have other aliases -- notably, webmail -- which point to other directories 
outside of the server document root, so that can't be it.

Any ideas, anyone?  This is driving me batty.

-- 
Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
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