httpd access problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Tim wrote:
>On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I can read them just fine with FF, going to the exact same web address
>> you would use: <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/nitros9>
>>
>> But apparently (some) others cannot.
>
>I just had a look, and some files in there are forbidden (cc3io.dis),
>others load (e.g. the make).  Which leads me to wonder about:
>
>Permissions &/or SELinux contexts on individual files.  Whatever the
>user and group permissions, the world permissions need to be world
>readable, and world executable for directories (all parent directories,
>right back to /).  And there must be an appropriate httpd SELinux
>context.

And that was one of the clues, confirmed by an ls -l in the real files 
directory.

I just did a chmod 0644 * in that directory, try it again please.

>Are these files actually there, or are they elsewhere, and these are
>symlinks to them?

Symlinks.

Thanks Tim.

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