Forbidden/You don't have permission to access / on this server

[guitarman]

Hi Folks and Happy New year,
I have set up my Apache server and copied my 4 web site files into both /var/www and /var/www/mysite.com directories have restarted Apache2 successfully, but when I try to access my server with 192.168.2.10 (Ubuntu IP address on my local line) I get:


Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.

I found info on the Apache.org FAQs and did a chmod -x /var/www and chmod -x /var/www/mysite.com, but I still get the same error.

Also did the following as per Apache.org
"Search your conf/httpd.conf file for this exact string: <Files ~>. If you find it, that's your problem -- that particular <Files> container is malformed. Delete it or replace it with <Files ~ "^\.ht"> and restart your server and things should work as expected."

But still no success. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,