Hello, I'm using the latest CentOS with phpBB 3.0.x + postgreSQL + sendmail (relayed through gmail.com) - all those programs working fine, with no big modifications of the CentOS defaults (i.e. SELinux is on). Now I'm struggling with the seemingly simple problem, that when I put an .html file into /var/www/html/ then Apache won't serve it. In the browser I see: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /Alex.html on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at XXXX Port 80" In the /var/log/httpd/error_log (I've set "LogLevel debug") I only see: "[error] [client 10.216.40.68] (13)Permission denied: access to /Alex.html denied [error] [client 10.216.40.68] (13)Permission denied: access to /Alex.html denied" The other filetypes like crossdomain.xml and index.php or hello-world.php are served just fine. Also, if I move my *.html files under /var/www/html/test/ - then they are served ok. The permissions are ok in my book: # ls -al Alex.html index.php hello-world.php -r--r--r-- 1 root root 599 Sep 29 15:49 Alex.html -rw-r--r-- 1 afarber afarber 33 Jul 29 11:32 hello-world.php -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5631 Jun 27 09:38 index.php # ls -ald / /var /var/www /var/www/html drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Sep 29 15:54 / drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jun 22 15:25 /var drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 29 11:45 /var/www drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Sep 29 15:59 /var/www/html # cat /var/www/html/.htaccess (installed by phpBB) <Files "config.php"> Order Allow,Deny Deny from All </Files> <Files "common.php"> Order Allow,Deny Deny from All </Files> # /usr/sbin/getsebool -a | grep http allow_httpd_anon_write --> off allow_httpd_bugzilla_script_anon_write --> off allow_httpd_cvs_script_anon_write --> off allow_httpd_mod_auth_pam --> off allow_httpd_nagios_script_anon_write --> off allow_httpd_prewikka_script_anon_write --> off allow_httpd_squid_script_anon_write --> off allow_httpd_sys_script_anon_write --> off httpd_builtin_scripting --> on httpd_can_network_connect --> off httpd_can_network_connect_db --> off httpd_can_network_relay --> off httpd_can_sendmail --> on httpd_disable_trans --> off httpd_enable_cgi --> on httpd_enable_ftp_server --> off httpd_enable_homedirs --> on httpd_read_user_content --> off httpd_rotatelogs_disable_trans --> off httpd_ssi_exec --> off httpd_suexec_disable_trans --> off httpd_tty_comm --> on httpd_unified --> on httpd_use_cifs --> off httpd_use_nfs --> off I've looked into /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and conf.d/ files... Does anybody know what is wrong, how to find out? Regards Alex