Permissions Issue on Web Subdirectories

Question

I have several complex websites to set up on Mac OS X and I have created a subdirectory structure under /library/webserver/documents so that i can organise my site contents. The new structure is:
/library/webserver/documents/sites/sitename1, sitename2, sitename3 etc
In server admin I have set up a domain name and a realm but i cannot see my subdirectories when i try to choose the folder containing the web pages - the folder "sites" doesnt appear in the list. I can specify it but if I try to access the index page of the new site I get a security error "you do not have access to..."
Yet the permissions seem just fine - everyone has read access and in fatc the permissions seem identical to the parent folder(s).
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I have several complex websites to set up on Mac OS X
and I have created a subdirectory structure under
/library/webserver/documents so that i can organise
my site contents. The new structure is:
/library/webserver/documents/sites/sitename1,
sitename2, sitename3 etc
It's a permissions issue.
Try this in terminal:<pre>su; # Enter root password when prompted.
mkdir /www
mkdir /www/sitename1
mkdir /www/sitename2
mkdir /www/sitename3
chmod -R 0775 /www
chown -R root:www /www</pre>Place your site contents in these directories and adjust your sites in SA to point to these paths.
In server admin I have set up a domain name and a
realm but i cannot see my subdirectories when i try
to choose the folder containing the web pages - the
folder "sites" doesnt appear in the list. I can
specify it but if I try to access the index page of
the new site I get a security error "you do not have
access to..."
Yet the permissions seem just fine - everyone has
read access and in fatc the permissions seem
identical to the parent folder(s).
Any ideas?