Apache VirtualHost 403 Forbidden

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I recently tried to set a test server up with Apache  The site must run under domain www mytest com  I always get a 403 Forbidden error  I am on Ubuntu 10 10 server edition  The doc root is under dir  var www  The following are my settings   Content of  var www  ls -l  var www   total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-08-04 11 26 mytest com -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 177 2011-07-25 16 10 index html   Content of the host file on the server  with IP 192 168 2 5   cat  etc hosts  127 0 0 1 localhost  127 0 1 1 americano 192 168 2 5 americano mytest com www mytest com    The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts   1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00  0 ip6-localnet ff00  0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02  1 ip6-allnodes ff02  2 ip6-allrouters   Site config   lt VirtualHost   gt  ServerAdmin admin mytest com ServerName www mytest com ServerAlias mytest com  DocumentRoot   var www mytest com   ErrorLog  var log apache2 mytest-error log CustomLog  var log apache2 mytest-access log combined      This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to     lt Directory   var www mytest com  gt  Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None  Order allow deny Allow from all  lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt    I have no  htaccess file in my doc root  The permissions are set correctly  readable by www-data    If I type in the IP address from my desktop  the site shows up correctly  I changed the hosts file on my desktop to point www mytest com to the server s IP  When I use it  I get 403  Since many functions of this site are sitename-sensitive  I have to be able to access the site by the domain name   Another funky thing is  even if all log files are created properly  they have no information regarding this error   I am stuck  Can anybody help

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I just spent several hours on this stupid problem

First, change permissions using this in terminal

find htdocs -type f -exec chmod 664 {} + -o -type d -exec chmod 775 {} +

I don't know what the difference is between 664 and 775 I did both 775 like this Also htdocs needs the directory path for instance for me it was

/usr/local/apache2/htdocs 

find htdocs -type f -exec chmod 775 {} + -o -type d -exec chmod 775 {} +

This is the other dumb thing too

make sure that your image src link is your domain name for instance

src="http://www.fakedomain.com/images/photo.png"

Be sure to have

EnableSendfile off in httpd.conf file
EnableMMAP off in httpd.conf file

You edit those using pico in terminal

I also created a directory for images specifically so that when you type in the browser address bar domainname.com/images, you will get a list of photos which can be downloaded and need to be downloaded successfully to indicate image files that are working properly

<Directory /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/images>
AddType images/png .png
</Directory>

And those are the solutions I have tried, now I have functioning images... yay!!!

Onto the next problem(s)

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This works on Linux Fedora for VirtualHost     Lampp Xampp   Go to    opt lampp etc extra Open   httpd-vhosts conf Insert this in httpd-vhosts conf  lt VirtualHost   80 gt  ServerAdmin mail domain com DocumentRoot  quot  opt lampp APPS My App quot  ServerName votemo test ServerAlias www votemo test ErrorLog  quot logs votemo test-error log quot  CustomLog  quot logs votemo test-access log quot  common  lt Directory  quot  opt lampp APPS My App quot  gt      Options FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride None     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    p s    Don t forget to comment the previous exemple already present in httpd-vhosts conf Set your hosts system file   Go to    etc  folder find hosts file    etc hosts   I insert this    but not sure to 100  if this good  127 0 0 1       votemo test    1         votemo test  - gt  Open or Restart Apache  Open a console and paste this command for open a XAMPP graphic interface   sudo  opt lampp manager-linux-x64 run Note   Adjust path how you want to your app folder ex  DocumentRoot  quot  home USER Desktop My Project quot  and set directory path too   ex        lt Directory  quot  home USER Desktop My Project quot  gt      But this should be tested  comment if this work     Additionnal notes    Localisation Lampp folder    Path   opt lampp  Start Lampp   sudo  opt lampp lampp start  Adjust rights if needed   sudo chmod o w  opt lampp manager-linux-x64 run  Path to hosts file    etc hosts

User · Answer

I was having the same problem with a virtual host on Ubuntu 14 04  For me the following solution worked   http   ubuntuforums org showthread php t 2185282  It s just adding a  lt Directory  gt  tag to  etc apache2 apache2 conf

User · Answer

It could be you haven t setup PHP

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The problem was that the file access permission was wrong   I changed the permissions of the directory and it worked

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Move the Directory clause out of the virtualhost  and put it before declaring the virtualhost    Drove me nuts for a long time too  Don t know why  It s a Debian thing

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For apache Ubuntu 2 4 7   I finally found you need to white list your virtual host in apache2 conf    access here  or in any related virtual host   lt Directory  home gav public html  gt      Options FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride None     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt

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This may be a permissions problem      every single parent path to the virtual document root must be Readable  Writable  and Executable by the web server httpd user   according to this page about Apache 403 errors   Since you re using Allow from all  your order shouldn t matter  but you might try switching it to Deny Allow to set the default behavior to  allowing

User · Answer

If you did everything right  just give the permission home directory like   sudo chmod o x  HOME   then  sudo systemctl restart apache2

User · Answer

Apache 2 4 3  or maybe slightly earlier  added a new security feature that often results in this error   You would also see a log message of the form  client denied by server configuration    The feature is requiring a user identity to access a directory   It is turned on by DEFAULT in the httpd conf that ships with Apache   You can see the enabling of the feature with the directive  Require all denied   This basically says to deny access to all users   To fix this problem  either remove the denied directive  or much better  add the following directive to the directories you want to grant access to   Require all granted   as in    lt Directory  your directory here  gt     Order allow deny    Allow from all      New directive needed in Apache 2 4 3      Require all granted  lt  Directory gt

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I had this issue on Arch Linux too    it costs me some time but I m happy now that I found my mistake   My directory with the  html files where in my account   I set everything on r x but I still got the 403 error   Than I went completely back and tried to set my home-directory to execute which solved my problem

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