OT:Apache question

[Greg Julius]

Mark,

I don't know if this will do the trick for you, it depends upon other 
settings, but give this a try:

Create a simple text file called .htaccess in the files directory.  In it 
place the following:
Options +Indexes

This should turn index viewing On.

Good luck mate,
-g


At 11:14 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:21, Lance wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> >     I think the problem is that the directory "files" doesn't have the
> > excute bit set for everybody.  Thus Apache can't read the directory. A
> > chmod +x "files"  should do the trick.   There's a couple of other things
> > it could be as well so this is my first best guess.
> >
> > lance
> >
>
>Lance,
>    Thanks for the response. Some stuff is +x, some was not so I changed
>it all but no change.
>
>    I got some instructions along time ago about how to take a default
>Apache installation and just make it do a single page. What I was told
>to do was put my documentation directory, so that's where I'm running
>this from today. It's seems like a funky way to do things, but it does
>resolve the index.html file when I go to http://marksmusic.blah.blah
>
>Wizard htdocs # pwd
>/var/www/localhost/htdocs
>Wizard htdocs # ls -la
>total 448
>drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Dec 22 09:38 .
>drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Nov 21 10:11 ..
>drwxrwxrwx    4 mark     mark         4096 Feb 19 19:28 files
>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          318 Dec 22 09:41 index.html
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           38 Nov 21 10:11 manual ->
>/usr/share/doc/apache-2.0.48-r1/manual
>Wizard htdocs #
>
>As you can see the files directory is excessively executable.
>
>Inside of files I have some audio and some directories.
>
>Wizard files # ls -la
>total 44452
>drwxrwxrwx    4 mark     mark         4096 Feb 19 19:28 .
>drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Dec 22 09:38 ..
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      2648706 Dec 22 09:42
>GSt_Bounce-2003-12-21.ogg
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      5279734 Jan 14 10:07 Glass1.mp3
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 mark     mark      2500154 Jan 14 17:53 Glass1.ogg
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 mark     mark     29499168 Jan 14 17:53 Glass1.wav
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      2794259 Dec 22 09:42
>LS_Bounce-2003-12-21.ogg
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      2703771 Jan 11 14:45
>LS_Bounce-2004-01-11.ogg
>drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         4096 Dec 29 16:48 StarCraft
>drwxrwxrwx    3 root     root         4096 Feb 19 19:27 dclark
>Wizard files #
>
>
>What happens right now is that I can access the files if I know the name
>ahead of time, like
>
>http://marksmusic.blah.blah/files/Glass1.mp3
>
>This will grab the file and play it. However I cannot get files itself
>to be viewable
>
>
>http://marksmusic.blah.blah/file
>
>returns
>
>Forbidden
>You don't have permission to access /files/ on this server.
>Apache/2.0.48 (Gentoo/Linux) Server at Wizard.knechthome.com Port 80
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Mark
>
>
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