Check your Apache error logs. My guess is that the user running your Apache server (I.e. www-data if you're on Debian) is not a member of your webusers group. -Vic On Nov 18, 2016 3:19 PM, "Trevor James" <james [ at ] telfer [ dot ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> wrote: > Good Day all > > OK background need to set up a LAMP server with sftp access to > /var/www/html > > Using scripts from the net, I followed this path > > Create a user "webguy" > > mkdir /home/webguy/www_dev > mount --bind /var/www/dev/ /home/webguy/www_dev > > edited /etc/fstab to make it permanent > > This redirect worked > > From there I am in a hit and miss area (and I know it will be a simple > solution that I just don't see) > > Getting the rights/owners and httpd.conf has not worked > > I created a group called webusers, and made webguy a member of that group > (we don't have to keep this, but it is how I got it to work for sftp access) > > Ls chown > chmod > > /var/www root:webusers 770 > /var/www/html root:webusers 770 > > Now webguy can upload, and change files but I go http://myserver/ I get > 403 forbidden so this is a rights issue I have erred on. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks. > > T. James > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >