Hi, I've spent the whole day trying everything to solve this. After reading 75 forum incedents I still havn't solved it. Users outside my network get: Forbidden You were denied access because: Access denied by access control list. but my network can view the page just fine. Port 80 is open. I've messed with AllowOverride, permissions (755, 777, no luck) users, etc. I am extremely desperate and tired. I've also tried a couple different httpd.conf files. I wonder if it isn't Apache at fault. I don't run a software firewall (ipchains, iptables, or similar), Port 80 is open, Nmap shows it, and besides users can connect they just get denied. I still think it may have to do with AllowOverrides. I only tried switching None to All in all of the occurances of it. I have tried Apache from the Gentoo ebuild, and a standard install from source. Both with the same error. Thanks.

Have you modified the /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny files?

Thanks for the reply. From what I understand, Apache only uses those files if launched from inetd. I launch it with apachectl start. Unless you compile some wrapper support into Apache, can I find if it did? Also, I have o hosts.allow/deny at all. What is a valid one to unblock Apache?

I have an FTP server up now and everyone can access it, so I assume it's Apache at fault. I messed around with hosts.allow/deny. With them configured to allow everything it still doesn't work. I use Apache2.0 btw

Do you have .htaccess files? (NB you have to do an "ls -a" to list hidden files)

I do not have any.

I just added a .htaccess in the root htdocs direcotry with just: allow from all in it, no luck. AllowOverride set to All...