permission problem

[tinks]

hi,

i have a problem accessing my php files in my browser, i am using apache as my webserver. i am on RHEL 5
it used to really work properly until i messed up things.
now i don;t know what to do.

everytime i open my php files which are on
/var/www/htm/

it gives me the permission denied error.

i think i messed up with the chown and chgrp
i typed all these:

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# chown -R root:root /usr/local/apache
# find /usr/local/apache -type d | xargs chmod 755
# find /usr/local/apache -type f | xargs chmod 644

# chmod -R go-r /usr/local/apache/conf
# chmod -R go-r /usr/local/apache/logs
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wanting to change permissions so that my apache could create a file.
now it forbids me to do anything.

even if i check on the status of my httpd
/usr/sbin/apachectl status

gives me this error:
Forbidden
you dont have permission to access /server-status on this server.

my logs in the httpd/logs/error.log says:

- (13)Permission denied: access to /denied
- (13) Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied

it seems to restrict me to access anything..

when i access localhost it gives me this:

Forbidden
You dont have permission to access / on this server

Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at localhost Port 80


please help, how do i revert back to normal?
i really need this to work properly again asap

thank you so much,
tinks

[tinks]

just for the record, problem's solved already

i just checked the permissions of the document roots..

#namei -m /document/root/path

and the permissions were set to 644
replace it with 755

#chmod -R 755 /document/root/path ->recursively changes permission

and then

#ls -ld /var/www/html/
#ls -ld /var/www
#ls -ls /var

to check that it has the 755..


cheers!