ubuntu server apache 2 wont load pictures from sub directory

[ThaDoctor99]

Hey All.

I have this strange problem with apache running on a VPS server I bought for the purpose of running a website.
Well and perhaps other things as well, but when I try to load any pictures on the server in the root it just says that I am not allowed to go and load those pictures.
You can see the errors as well as I can if you visit http://ziggy-dog.eu and view the source and click on one of the image links.

// ThaDoctor99

[volkswagner]

What are the permissions of the folder and files? They need to be readable by apache2 user (www-data).

ls -l /path/to/folder

[tgalati4]

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/picturedirectorythatisgivingyoutrouble

[ThaDoctor99]

I suppose it makes sense to make www-data the owner, wonder why I didn't think of that.
But it seems it didn't quiet work.
Perhaps I should do some more research into this command.
Although I have done these things it still doesn't seem to work.
I have never really used apache so much before, so I am not very fluent in the config files.

[lisati]

I took a look at the page, and ended up with a blank screen. I was able to see the the references to the images in the page source, but attempting to access the images gave me a message "You don't have permission to access /images/clothing.jpg on this server."

Your apache log file and error log might be able to give you some clues as to what's happening.

[ThaDoctor99]

Hmm That indicates that the system is actively denying the server access to that directory, although I just did try to change the owner and all that.

[volkswagner]

Hmm That indicates that the system is actively denying the server access to that directory, although I just did try to change the owner and all that.

Please post output of the following, change to match your directory.

ls -alt /path/to/folder

[tgalati4]

You have to restart the apache server after making changes. (Always.)

sudo service apache2 restart

[volkswagner]

You have to restart the apache server after making changes. (Always.)

sudo service apache2 restart

This is not required when changing file permissions. Apache2 does not cache all the permissions for all files on your system.

It appears the directory is not readable. Even if it is owned by www-data, if the permissions don't have the read bit set... permission will still be denied.

[ThaDoctor99]

Hmm Yeah I did just to test out stuff set the permission to 777 on the files.