Re: Site access permissions

Matt,

A few things could be the problem:

1. The ISP hosting the site could be having problems.

2. The account for your client has not been properly setup.

3. Your files could have been FTP'ed to the wrong directory of the account.

4. Forgive me for this question as I don't know just how new you are at
this, but did you name the home page correctly. Most ISP's setup their
webservers to key on a specific filename for any url (address) it receives.
Most ISP's key on the names: index.html, index.htm, or both. So, for
example, when some goes to the address www.wyvernhotel.co.uk, and the ISP is
like most ISP's, they are really being taken to
www.wyvernhotel.co.uk/index.htm or www.wyvernhotel.co.uk/index.html (unless
you have a redirect, but that's another story).  If the directory doesn't
contain that filename, you will get the message you are seeing. This is done
for security reasons, otherwise the user would get a listing of all the
files in your account and would be able to 'poke' around.  This way they see
only what you want them to.

Steve Antonio
santonio(at)delanet.com

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Savage" <mtsavage(at)hotmail.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 7:46 AM
Subject: Site access permissions


> Help! I've just started up a business part time with a friend of mine. As
a
> first project we set up a little web site for a local hotel. I handed it
> over to the client who used Cute ftp to upload it on to the server.
Excited
> to see my first work published I went to the site (using IE5) to be
> presented with this message:
>
> "You are not authorized to view this page
>
> You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the
> credentials you supplied."
>
> I have got a few people to try to access it, with similar results.
>
> Any ideas what's going on here? I presume it's something on the ISP's
side.
>
> FYI, the url is www.wyvernhotel.co.uk
>
> TIA
>
> -Matt
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