when I tried to go here
I got this note:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /~mathnews on this server.
Apache/1.3.14 Server at www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca Port 80
Wha?
Was it something I said?
It’s a problem with the server. It basically means that the web server software cannot access the web page files. Check the address, or complain to the administrator of the web site.
The server probably runs some variant of the Unix operating system which is a multi-user operating system; you can specify the “permissions” for each file - i.e. specify which program and which user can access the file. If you set it up so that the web server program cannot access the HTML file, you get that error.
Where did you get the first link? Your second link works fine. Perhaps Mathnews migrated their site to another server and closed public access at the former site.
Check out Google’s cache of the page you’re trying to get to.
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Argh! I spent 20 minutes writing a little chmod tutorial on here, and then I reread the question and now I realize you probably don’t own the webpage you’re looking at. I do lab supervising at my college, and I’m so used to getting that question I didn’t think twice.
Just on the off chance that you DO own the webpage, and want to learn about permissions, here you go.
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I get it, I get it. Thanks folks.
The Apache “Forbidden” page is an http error 403. There’s nothing wrong with the server - someone does not want you accessing that directory or page. To find out why, mail the Admins.
This can also happen if the site was shut down by the ISP.