The only thing I haven't tried is to disable SELinux. Would that fix my problem? Are there any other things I can try?
you can try disabling selinux just for apache. read the faq here for that
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/
see if that fixes your problem and post what you awnt to do to the fedora-selinux list. developers could guide on you how to setup selinux with apache for what you want to do
Thanks for the link!
Here's what I did that got everything to work correctly.
First I added apache to my 'www' group I created for multiple users to edit a single file. Next I chmoded -R g+s /var/www/test which is my DocumentRoot in apache.
That seems to have solved all my problems with permissions and getting the 403 Forbidden error! Now all I have got to do is get cgi scripts to work!
Thanks for everyone's help. I hope this can help someone in the future :)
jay