Apache is retarded

stilist

So: I recently decided I wanted to set up WordPress on my MacBook and start playing around with it. After following the steps here, I got Apache/PHP/MySQL coöperating nicely, with WordPress working great—except that images specified in a stylesheet won’t load, but rather give a 403 error. As it happens, this exact issue is covered in the previous link, but the solution does not work for me.

In /etc/apache2/httpd.conf have the following:

<Directory "/Users/stilist/Sites/">
  Options Indexes Includes
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

The following shows up in Apache’s error.log for each specified image:

[Mon Feb 04 17:12:56 2008] [error] [client 192.168.2.2] (13)Permission denied: file permissions deny server access: /Users/stilist/Sites/wordpress/wp-content/themes/black/[i]image_name[/i].gif, referer: http://192.168.2.2/~stilist/wordpress/

SeñorAmor

What are the files' permissions?

Apothe0sis

My initial reaction is that the file permissions on /Users/stilist etc etc are set to something like read only for guests or other users.

chmod those bitches (or whatever the mac version thereof is).

Too simple? Sorry, if so.

stilist

As it turns out, it was a permission issue. I had checked the permissions by looking at the ‘Get Info’ window, but forgot about the UNIX side because I’m still not entirely accustomed to such things.

Running chmod 777 *.* on the images fixed it right up, thanks!

Apothe0sis

I win!