<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Usually - from my experience - permissions are set at 766 for directories and 655 for files. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from Galaxy S3 on Three</div></div> <br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Stephen <steve@thatbytes.co.uk> <br>Date: <br>To: nigel <xm2@btinternet.com> <br>Cc: Wylug-help@wylug.org.uk <br>Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] configuring LAMP <br> <br><br>What are the permissions on <br>/home/nigel<br>/home/nigel/Documents/<br><br>As that maybe the issue. Also what is the errors present in<br>/var/log/apache*<br><br>On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:54:40PM +0000, nigel wrote:<br>> Could anyone suggest what to try to get LAMP working? I am using Ubuntu<br>> 13.10. This LAMP will only be accessed locally by me.<br>> <br>> When I put localhost into my browser I get 403 Forbidden<br>> "You don't have permission to access / on this server.<br>> Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80"<br>> <br>> When I do sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start<br>> I get<br>> * Starting web server apache2 AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably<br>> determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set<br>> the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message<br>> * <br>> <br>> I have done sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf and<br>> changed my home folder like this<br>> DocumentRoot /home/nigel/Documents/local<br>> <br>> I have done sudo nautilus and set the permissions for this folder as<br>> best I can (I don't know what they should be set to).<br>> <br>> Please phrase your advice in beginner's terms or, sadly, I won't<br>> understand you (-:<br>> <br>> Thank you<br>> <br>> Best wishes<br>> Nigel<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Wylug-help mailing list<br>> Wylug-help@wylug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wylug-help<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wylug-help mailing list<br>Wylug-help@wylug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wylug-help<br></body>