Hi Henrik, it's been a long time. Yes, I did include the hobbit-apache.conf piece in the httpd.conf file. (and I only made the permissions 777 to troubleshoot this), but it makes no difference. It is running on RHEL 4.0, apache 2.0, and I can't see what else would be restricting permission to /hobbit/. Got any ideas?
You do have at least a+x access on every directory in the path to the hobbit directory, right?? Or equivalent group access for the webserver group?? If not, your web server won't be able to traverse the path to get there...