Ubuntu/Apache2/ Forbidden/Permission error

Question

I have Ubuntu 11.10 with Lamp installed

There is some files that i can\'t access to from my web directory \"/var/www\"

http://localhost/banner/banner.html I

Answer 1

I always forget that while the sub-directories and files need the read permission, the sub-directories also need execute permission.

chmod a+x banner

This tends to come up when I've saved a web page in the 'Webpage, Complete' format with Chrome or Firefox and am then trying to serve it under localhost, which I often do when building mockups for clients.