On 4/13/06, Nick Smith nick.smith79@gmail.com wrote:

Well i finally got CentOS 4.3 booting, apache is installed, and im trying to setup some virutal hosts, i want the main site to be my default virtual host (which i had on my gentoo server) but i keep getting permission denied errors:

Forbidden

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

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

and in the logs i get:

(13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

i have even tried chmod 777 on the /home/user/public_html dir and that still didnt resovle the issue. What user do the files have to be owned by? i would assume the user, but i have also tried apache:apache and root:root, since the original htdocs dir was owned by root:root. everything ive tried just gives me the same permission denied error. here is my vhosts.conf file (i created it under conf.d)

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com ServerName domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com DocumentRoot /home/nick/public_html ErrorLog /home/nick/logs/error_log CustomLog /home/nick/logs/access_log combined

<Directory "/home/nick/public_html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

It DID work with the default install, i got the default page, but for some reason when i switch to virtual hosts i started getting denied.

I also have this in my httpd.conf file:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c> UserDir public_html

# # Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example # for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only. # <Directory /home/*/public_html> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Limit> <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND> Order deny,allow Deny from all </LimitExcept>

</Directory>

<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin> Options ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script

</Directory>

</IfModule>

any ideas? any other info you need to help me out?

thanks

Nick

and i am not running selinux.