I solved this problem by installing an old video adapter that ClearOS/CentOS supported. For many years Windows has had a "compatibility mode" for video adapters it does not recognize. Since high end video is not needed to run ClearOS, it would be nice if there was a way to cleanly force to a common mode supported by most video subsytems. Just a thought...

Ben, thanks. The mystery is why did this just start now? I've used the httpd server for many years. The permission problems started just a few days ago. Now that I know where the problem is happening I can do some digging....

The file permissions for the directory /var/www/html were drwxrwx---

The "all other" users were unable to access the directory or files in it.

From the directory /var/www I ran chmod -R 775 html This corrected the problem.

Now my question to the ClearOS team, what changed the access and permission to this directory last night?

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

I have a very simple web server set up on ClearOS. It is a simple HTTP file and uses only the default ClearOS settings. It has worked well for several years through several versions of ClarkConnect and ClearOS. This morning we could not access the web page and started getting the following error message:

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

The web server is set for "LAN Only" access by the "AllUsers" group. There are no users or groups set up on the server beyond the factory defaults.

Peter, thanks. This is beginning to feel like a lot of work. I found an old video adapter, installed it, then in the BIOS forced the system to use it. ClearOS installed cleanly and is running properly. I contacted AMD this morning and told them their Linux instructions, well, don't work. I'll watch the forums and support websites. Perhaps later a good solid fix will present itself.

My new system has a solid state disk drive. OMG! This new system is FAST.

Thank you Peter. I tried to install the AMD drivers. The installer generated a screen full of dependency problems. There does not seem to be a way to disable or dumb down the on chip video. Maybe the solution is to put in an old, Linux supported video card and force the bios to use it exclusively.
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I wonder if there is a way to force ClearOS and/or Linux to use an old/safe video mode.
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I may try to install a new version of another Linux distro to see if it will work, and then what graphics drivers it is using.
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If anyone has coax'd an AMD Ax-xxxx system into working with ClearOS, please share with us how you did it.
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I used this family of AMD CPU to build a Windows based Media PC. The on-chip graphics can handle the HD TV encoding quite well. The price/performance of this chip family is quite good.

Help! Anyone!

For fun, I downloaded a few versions of CentOS and did test installations with them. CentOS, the base operating system of ClearOS has problems with my hardware. So this problem is not unique to ClearOS. The new generation of processors are coming with on chip graphics processing cores. The Linux distributions are having a hard time keeping up with the innovative new chips. When I went shopping for a new system almost all of the medium to low end processors available to me had graphics cores. It seems to be the way of the future.

Now how do I fix my problem and get me new gateway up and running?

Blank Screen ... again ...

I am in the process of building my next generation of gateway/server. (I think its my 5th or 6th physical box.) I started with version 6.6.0. The install ran part ways and then I encountered the "blank screen" problem. It tried all the checks and possible fixes I could find in the support forums. No success. I then went to the new 7.1 version. Same thing. I was going to try the 6.5 version, but couldn't find the old ISO.
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Any suggestions?
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My new system is based on an AMD A6-7400K processor.