Setting default folder permissions for Apache on Fedora

Question

G'day, I have a web server running on my personal computer as a means for me to test various things. By default, Fedora (running version 10 atm) seems to set the permission for /var/www/html/ as

Deny from all

What is the easiest way to correct this? I have tried putting a .htaccess file in each folder, but I would much rather use some method that will apply to every folder under /var/www/html/. The .htaccess file I have tried using is

Order allow, deny
Allow from all
Deny from none

NOTE: I don't connect this computer to the network at all, so I don't care if "everyone" has permissions to view the folder.

Many thanks for answering.

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EDIT: The contents of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (the relevant part) are:

<Directory "/var/www/html">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow, deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

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EDIT 2: I have found that some of the files in the folder are accessible, but not all of them - the permissions of every file are the same, but while I can access compressed.css, I can't access screen.css

Answer 1

Did you found Deny from all in something like <Directory /var/www/html/> ? In this case you may just try to remove Deny from all and restart apache

Answer 2

Okay, I have been shown the answer on linuxquestions.org (relevant posts are http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/permissions-problem-with-apache-735457/ - follow the link posted in there to see the solution that I used (have to limit myself to one link because new users can't post more than one link)). Basically, the problem is that the SELinux context was wrong - of course, this does not show up on a normal

ls -l

but it is very easy to see with

ls -lZ