[TAG] Please help me :(...

[Ben Okopnik]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:09:11PM -0500, Lin, Hong wrote:
>    Hi:
> 
>    I have a wired problem and I hope I can get some help in your place.
 
I'm assuming you mean "weird"; otherwise, I'd be trying to figure out
how your Ethernet cable figures into this problem. :)
 
>    I received a "Forbidden / You don't have permission to access
>    /~user/index.html on this server." Error while I try to display my web
>    page.
> 
>    The OP is Fedora 7
>    Apache is 2.2.6
> 
>    Permissions of all directories and files are set to rwxr-xr-x leading from
>    /home all the way to the files inside public_html.
> 
>    I have modified the httpd.conf file to make sure it looks for the
>    /~user/public_html directory.
> 
>    I did not touch any other file or area.
>    If I "killall httpd" and run /usr/sbin/httpd, then the index.html under
>    the /~user/public_html displays. That means that it seems worked for my
>    purpose.
> 
>    However, after I run "/etc/init.d/httpd restart", it displayed stopping
>    httpd [ok] starting httpd [ok], but I will not be able to see my
>    index.html file under the /~user/public_html

Question number one: is Apache the _only_ web server that you have
installed? What is '/usr/sbin/httpd' - is it a binary, a link to a
program, or what? I've run into this kind of problem before (PHP would
or would not work, mysteriously, until I figured out that I was starting
one of two different web servers.)
 
Some tests you could run:

file /usr/sbin/httpd
strings -a /usr/sbin/httpd
/usr/sbin/httpd -h

Conversely, you could try

whereis apache
whereis apache2

>    The system index.html (the testing page) always worked.
> 
>    The wired thing is after I taking out all the #lines within the
>    /etc/init.d/httpd file, I can use "/etc/init.d/httpd restart" to make it
>    work.  
> 
>    However, when the machine reboots, it does not work again.  I have tried
>    to put "/etc/init.d/httpd restart" at end of the rc.local to force the web
>    serve stop and start at the boot.  The server will stop and then start,
>    but it does not display my web page.  
 
Your startup scripts may be starting one server, whereas you may be
starting a different one. Do realize, by the way, that the control
script for apache2 is called 'apache2ctl', not 'apachectl'.
 

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