I've read through the manuals and set up 4 virtual servers on my Win95
installation. When I try to access the sites, all 4 give me a HTTP 403 "You
are not authorized to view this page."

I see no way to grant access on the directory to specific users. Is there
some setting in Apache where I can designate the user account to be used for
web access? Thanks.

Joe

duh -- I meant Windows XP Professional

Joe Befumo wrote:
> I've read through the manuals and set up 4 virtual servers on my Win95

I see your later correction about XP.

> installation. When I try to access the sites, all 4 give me a HTTP 403 "You
> are not authorized to view this page."
>
> I see no way to grant access on the directory to specific users. Is there
> some setting in Apache where I can designate the user account to be used for
> web access? Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
>

I don't run Apache on Windoze, but on UNIX boxes the web server runs as
a specific user (usually called 'nobody'). Hence files & directories
must be readable to that user. The actual user you use does not matter,
but don't use a privilidged account. You want that user to have the bare
minimum of permissions.

--
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