403 Access denied

[fortyfiverecords]

:ph34r:

 

Hi everybody,

I'd like to thank in advance anybody that will bother answering me,

as I know novices can be a pain in the neck.

I must say that I've installed Oscommerce 2.2 MS already with little effort

on a Lycos server and it was working, but now I went for a (unix/linux)

payment hosting service.

 

That's the deal:

I've uploaded the /catalog dir into my /public_html (or root)

using WS_ftpLE in ASCII mode and set the CHMOD as follows

/catalog 777

/catalog/admin 777

/catalog/includes 777

/catalog/install 777

 

/catalog/admin/configuration.php 777

/catalog/admin/includes 777

/catalog/includes/configure.php 777

/catalog/install/install.php 777

/catalog/admin/includes/configure.php 777

I've tried to fiddle with the chmod values (755, 644 and stuff like that)

NO LUCK!

 

I've wrote to the hosting company tech support and they told me

that I have to sort out the DNS first(????) but personally - I might be wrong -

I don't think that DNS have got anything to do with php install probs.....

 

Back to square one, if you go to http://server9.web-mania.com/users/fortyfi...stall/index.php, you can see all is fine

until you get to step 2 where you get......

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /users/fortyfiv/catalog/install/install.php on this server.

Apache/1.3.27 Server at server9.web-mania.com Port 80

 

Now, I think there is something wrong on the permission settings, but I can suss it out....

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Take care,

 

Marco

[OceanRanch]

Make sure your /users/fortyfiv directory is also accessible (readable) 644 for the webserver.

 

Also check the apache error_log to see if any other error details show when you go to step 2 of the install.

 

The apache http_conf may also be preventing access via a directive.

 

I agree with you that its not a DNS issue. Got to be a permissions issue.

 

HTH