Re: {bb} Forbidden errors

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 18:44, West, Jon (NIH/NIMH) [C] wrote:
> Hi all, I seem be having difficulty getting the web portion of BB to
> work. I am getting Forbidden errors and I can't figure out why. I have
> disabled SELinux, I have put FollowSymLinks in my httpd.conf. BB resides
> in /home/bb/bb. Is there anything else I need to change to stop getting
> forbidden errors. I'm thinking it may have something to do with home
> directory permissions or something

There are more hints about this in the file:

  $BBHOME/www/help/forbidden.html

in your distribution or:

  http://demo.bb4.com/bb/help/help/big_brother_unix_help.htm

on the BB demo site.

The likely cause is that your web-server user (who is used when
accessing the pages) is unable to traverse one of the directories
to get to BB. To test, you can use "su" to change to the web
user and, starting at the root directory, attempt to move to
each of the directories on the path to the HTML files, one
at a time. E.g.:

    cd /
    su
    Password: 
    su nobody
    cd home
    cd bb
    cd bb1.9i-btf
    cd www
    cat bb.html

The chances are that at some point(s) the directory permissions
will not allow you any further. Then you will need either to open
up to "755" (allowing anyone to read) or to 750 (allowing the
group to read) and adding the web user to the required group.

Cheers, Phil.



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