403 Forbidden

[theprimehost]

Hello,
I'm Cpanel vet but a DA noob. When I setup my primary domain on the server and try to view before propagation (i.e. http://IPADDRESS/~admin )

I get the following error:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~admin on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Your thoughts?

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

That's because the isn't a public_html symbolic link for admins. The next release will have the option to set the default domain, but will also automatically setup the link when a domain is created.

http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=309

Until then, you can just run:


cd /home/admin
ln -s ./domain/domain.com/public_html .
chown admin:admin public_html

John

[hostpc.com]

I have a similar problem..

Create the account...working fine
no symlink <aware of the bug>
go to advanced/domain admin/set to default domain...still working fine
client wants to use frontpage...enable frontpage ext...403 errors
Any suggestions?

Thanks

PS: this is a new issue since the symlink issue cropped up...

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

You just need to check the permissions on the public_html directory.. it might be chmodded to 710, so just change it to 711 or 755... also have a look at the group. Normally it's apache, but frontpage throws a fit if the group owner of the directory is different.

John