Permission Denied error message with base and phpadmin

[Mark Sargent]

Mark Sargent wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> keep getting the following error message,
>
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /base-1.1/ on this server.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apache/2.0.53 (Unix) PHP/5.0.4 Server at localhost Port 80
>
>
>
> below are the permissions for the dir of base and it's contents. Is it 
> a permissions issue..?
>
> [root at localhost html]# cd base-1.1
> [root at localhost base-1.1]# ls -alh
> total 472K
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4.0K Apr  6 15:48 .
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 4.0K Apr  6 14:37 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:27 admin
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 3.5K Apr  4 05:26 base_ag_common.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  14K Apr  4 05:26 base_ag_main.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  28K Apr  4 05:26 base_common.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  11K Apr  6 14:54 base_conf.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  11K Apr  4 05:26 base_conf.php.dist
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 6.5K Apr  4 05:26 base_db_common.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  24K Apr  4 05:26 base_db_setup.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 1.6K Apr  4 05:26 base_denied.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 1.7K Apr  4 05:26 base_footer.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  17K Apr  4 05:26 base_graph_common.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4.6K Apr  4 05:26 base_graph_display.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  13K Apr  4 05:26 base_graph_form.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  12K Apr  4 05:26 base_graph_main.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  118 Apr  4 05:26 base_hdr1.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  490 Apr  4 05:26 base_hdr2.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  14K Apr  4 05:26 base_main.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 9.2K Apr  4 05:26 base_maintenance.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  26K Apr  4 05:27 base_qry_alert.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  30K Apr  4 05:27 base_qry_common.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 9.3K Apr  4 05:27 base_qry_form.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 7.2K Apr  4 05:27 base_qry_main.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 8.7K Apr  4 05:27 base_qry_sqlcalls.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  13K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_alerts.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 8.2K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_class.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  17K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_common.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  12K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_ipaddr.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 7.3K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_iplink.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 9.4K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_ports.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 6.9K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_sensor.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  14K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_time.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 8.1K Apr  4 05:27 base_stat_uaddr.php
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4.6K Apr  4 05:27 base_user.php
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:28 docs
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:27 help
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:27 images
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Apr  5 03:26 includes
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 3.1K Apr  4 05:27 index.php
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:27 languages
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:28 scripts
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:28 setup
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:28 sql
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr  4 05:27 styles
>
> my document_root = /var/www/html. What I don't understand, is, I can 
> see index.php in the browser which is in /var/www/html. Why can't I 
> access other directories.? I don't see it as a permissions issue. Is 
> there something not right in my httpd.conf file..?
>
> Furthermore, I created a dir, testphp and moved the index.php file 
> into it, and with localhost/testphp/index.php I could see it in my 
> browser. Below is the permissions of files/dir in the html dir.
>
> [root at localhost html]# ls -alh
> total 48K
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4.0K Apr 13 13:48 .
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Apr 12 14:18 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4.0K Mar 29 15:59 adodb
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4.0K Apr  6 15:48 base-1.1
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  16K Apr 13 13:08 index.php
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4.0K Mar 29 15:57 jpgraph
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4.0K Apr 13 13:44 phpmyadmin
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Apr 13 13:48 testphp
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   19 Mar 11 16:11 test.php
>
> phpadmin access attempt gives the same error message. Cheers.
>
>
>  Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apache/2.0.53 (Unix) PHP/5.0.4 Server at localhost Port 80
>
>
>
> Mark Sargent.
>
Hi All,

the only difference in the creation of these dir, is, phpadmin and 
base-1.1 were moved to their current location this way,

tar --directory=/var/www/html -xzvf <tar.gz filepath>

where as testphp was just a mkdir in the terminal.

Cheers.

Mark Sargent