Apache 2.0.47 need assistance

[fyrebird]

I am trying to set up a small webpage, and setup apache used webmin, and isntructions from a webpage, I get this message when I do a "Http:localhost" FORBIDEN You do now have permission to access / on <IP ADDRESS> port 80, I have set the folder to use to "Share" set all the files to read by everyone, and here is my Vhost.conf:

 

IP Based Virtual Hosts

VirtualHost <ipAddress>

User <Name>

Group <Name>

DocumentRoot /home/<user>/www

ServerName <name of computer>

Setenv VLOG /home/<username>/logs

RewriteEngine ON

RewriteOptions inherit

</virtualhost>   

 

 

 

 

Named Vritual Host

NamedVirtualHost <IPAddress>

<VirtualHost <IPAddress>>

Servername www.<sitename>.com

ServerPath /home/<username>/WWW

DocumentRoot /home/<username>/WWW

</VirtualHost>

 

It seems to be a permissions problem, but not sure what else to check, or if I have something installed wrong, any help would be most apriciated

 

Thank you.

[Cannonfodder]

Does your host allow access through port 80?

[fyrebird]

Good question.... I have no idea, I have no firewall set, yet... how would I check that? It sounds like thats what it is, though, doesn't it?

 

Thanks

[paul]

also in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf have you set the permissions on the directory ??

<Directory /home/<user>/www>

   <IfModule mod_deflate.c>

     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

   </IfModule>

   Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI

   AllowOverride All

   <IfModule mod_access.c>

     Order allow,deny

     Allow from all

   </IfModule>

</Directory>

and have you set the permissions on the directories?

chmod 755 /home/user

chmod 755 /home/user/www

[fyrebird]

Thanks for all the help, I am getting there, I no longer see the Forbidden screen, when doing a localhost, or http:/<ipaddress>, but the Index.shtml one, letting me know it's working now. I'll keep playing around, and see if I can get it to display the page I made. Thanks again for all the help.