Hi guys!
First post, please be gentle!

Pieter,
the reason I think you're having 403 forbidden problems when trying to 
access the files via the web is because Apache actually runs as a user on 
machine. When you changed the owner of the directory I think you may have 
ceased giving the Apache-user permission to those files.

When I set up Apache I had lots of trouble with permissions.

I can't remember the exact chmod syntax, but if you give world 
read/write/run access to that directory you should be okay for ftp access.

>From: Pieter Coolsma <pcoolsma@hetnet.nl>
>To: Matthew <mtheobalds@mac.com>
>CC: NetBSD mac68k <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
>Subject: Re: How to setup FTP-access?
>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:35:52 +0100
>
>on 20-02-2002 19:42, Matthew at mtheobalds@mac.com wrote:
>
> > The second thing to verify is that any directory to which you are
> > uploading has permissions 644, or 755. chmod 755 dir-name to change 
>this.
>
>I have set my homedir as root for Apache. Uploading is going very well. But
>when I request the uploaded files via IE, I get a 403 Forbidden.
>
>Manually changing this using chown 755 * does help. But can you automate
>this? So uploading via FTP gives the proper rights.
>
>--
>
>Pieter Coolsma
>
>e: pcoolsma@hetnet.nl
>i: http://www.coolsma.cjb.net
>




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