Beth, I can get to http://66.196.225.55/, but if I try going to the mail subdirectory I get: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /mail/ on this server. This seems to be a web server, but your question says vsftpd. I recently set up an ftp server using vsftpd. I found that for a directory to be accessible to anyone, permissions must be set so that the directory is executable by anyone -- you get into a directory by "executing" it. So to make a sub directory accessible, permissions must be set in the parent directory for the sub directory is executable. Go to /var/www/html and check the permissions on the mail sub directory. The command chmod +x mail might do it (or you may have to do chmod o+x mail, and chmod u+x mail plus chmod g+x mail, while chmod ugo+x mail might also work). This might help. Rick --- centos-request at caosity.org wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. VSFTPD / Apache (Beth Curotto) > ... > Message: 1 > From: "Beth Curotto" <bcurotto at abni.com> > To: "CentOS Mailing List" <centos at caosity.org> > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:03:24 -0500 > Subject: [Centos] VSFTPD / Apache > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C4B68C.0A6FEB00 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I have my web files in /var/www/html uploaded using > vsftpd, everything is ok > there all files in the directory /html appear fine, > but when i try to access > my folder http://66.196.225.55/mail I get the error > below. > > Notes: There is a valid index.html localed in that > folder. > /mail folder = drwxr-xr-x > all files within /mail = -rw-r--r-- > 66.196.225.55 is public addy for ip noted > below > > This is my 1st linux server & could use a bit of > quality advise. I would > appreciate greatly any assistance. > -------------------- > Forbidden > You don't have permission to access /mail/ on this > server. > > Apache/2.0.46 (CentOS) Server at 172.17.2.8 Port 80 > > > --------------------- > > > THANK YOU, Beth Curotto >