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When I try to list my files in chrome as david did in week 9 lecture, I get this error message:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
I entered http://localhost and got the above error.
This image shows the exact listing of my directory.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Being unable to read the contents of a folder or file on the web server is usually due to having read permissions not being set. Try setting read permissions for all users like this:
chmod a+r ~/vhosts/localhost/public/*
The spec for pset7 has has some pointers on setting up permissions.
To be able to list directories in Chrome, try executing these commands in the terminal
cd ~/vhosts/localhost
chmod 755 public/
and delete any files named index inside public (e.g., index.html and/or index.php)!
If you then add any files within this directory, then following the pset specification page, for any PHP file, file, that you create, execute
chmod 600 file
and for any non-PHP file, file, that you create (or upload), execute
chmod 644 file
where file is the name of your file.
Also, make sure the files are accessible by jharvard:students. To make sure of that, open up the terminal and navigate to ~/vhosts/localhost/public/ (using the cd command) and list your files by executing
ls -l
If for example, you have a file named index.php, you should see something like
-rw-------. 1 jharvard students 123 Aug 2 02:23 index.php
If you see something other than jharvard students, execute
sudo chown jharvard:students file
where file is the name of your file (e.g., index.php).
Hope that helps!
