[support] Getting to the base URL

[Derek Gransaull]

Tim:

Check the permissions on the drupal folder in the path that you've
installed it. If it's not owned by the apache2 (www-data) user then it
should be. I use Ubuntu, and apache2 runs as www-data. I'm not sure what
it runs as on RHEL. On my intranet server I've changed the permissions
to be myuser:www-data, i.e. I own the file, and so does the www-data
group. I selectively enable write permissions for the group, when doing
installs and such. Let me know if this helps.

BTW: Why RHEL vs Fedora?

Derek Gransaull
DGTLife, LLC

tim fong wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm pretty new to this, so, this may be a dumb question.
> I cannot get to the index.php page to finish my install.
>
> I am trying to install Drupal 6.6 on RHEL 4. I have Apache 2.2, PHP
> 4.3.9 and MYSQL 5. I have verified that Apache, PHP and MYSQL are all
> running.
>
> index.php is in:
> /var/www/html/drupal
>
> I am trying to set up Drupal to run on my intranet. Once I go to
> http://localhost/drupal/index.php , I see this error in my browser:
>
>     Forbidden
>     You don't have permission to access /drupal/index.php on this server.
>     Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying
>     to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
>
> Any ideas?  I've verified that that the directory is owned by the same
> user that is running the webserver.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>