[CLUE-Tech] Apache: "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this server"

[Mike Staver]

Do you have an index file in each virtual host?  Also, are your
directories allowing reads?  Meaning, I always do this to any directory
I plan on hosting web pages from:

chmod 711 directoryname

jason at matchingmoms.com wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to set up virtual hosting with Apache.  Whichever of my virtual
> hosts I attempt to reach, I receive this error:
> 
> "Forbidden.  You don't have permission to access / on this server."
> 
> Here's a log entry:
> 
> 192.168.0.200 - - [15/Dec/2001:05:54:12 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 287
> 
> Here's relevant lines from my httpd.conf:
> 
> ServerType standalone
> ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"
> LockFile /var/lock/httpd.lock
> PidFile /var/run/httpd.pid
> ScoreBoardFile /var/run/httpd.scoreboard
> Timeout 300
> KeepAlive On
> MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
> KeepAliveTimeout 15
> MinSpareServers 5
> MaxSpareServers 20
> StartServers 8
> MaxClients 150
> MaxRequestsPerChild 100
> BindAddress *
> Include conf/modules.conf
> User apache
> Group apache
> ServerAdmin root at localhost
> ServerName abigail
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
> <Directory />
>     Options FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride None
> </Directory>
> <Directory "/var/www/html">
>     Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> UserDir public_html
> DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php4
> index.php3 index.cgi
> AccessFileName .htaccess
> <Files ~ "^\.ht">
>     Order allow,deny
>     Deny from all
> </Files>
> UseCanonicalName On
> TypesConfig /etc/mime.types
> DefaultType text/plain
> <IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
>     MIMEMagicFile conf/magic
> </IfModule>
> HostnameLookups Off
> ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log
> LogLevel debug
> LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
> combined
> LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
> LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
> LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
> CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log combined
> ServerSignature On
> Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"
> <Directory "/var/www/icons">
>     Options Indexes MultiViews
>     AllowOverride None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
>     AllowOverride None
>     Options ExecCGI
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> IndexOptions FancyIndexing
> DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif
> ReadmeName README.html
> HeaderName HEADER.html
> AddEncoding x-compress Z
> AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz
> LanguagePriority en fr de
> <IfModule mod_php4.c>
>   AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php
>   AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> </IfModule>
> <IfModule mod_php3.c>
>   AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
>   AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
> </IfModule>
> <IfModule mod_php.c>
>   AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
> </IfModule>
> AddType application/x-tar .tgz
> AddType text/html .shtml
> AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
> AddHandler imap-file map
> BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
> BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
> BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
> BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
> BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
> <IfModule mod_perl.c>
>   Alias /perl/ /var/www/perl/
>   <Location /perl>
>     SetHandler perl-script
>     PerlHandler Apache::Registry
>     Options +ExecCGI
>   </Location>
> </IfModule>
> <Location /server-status>
>     SetHandler server-status
>     Order deny,allow
>     Deny from all
>     Allow from .powerpull.net
> </Location>
> Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/
> <Location /doc>
>   order deny,allow
>   deny from all
>   allow from localhost .localdomain
>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> </Location>
> Include conf/virtual_hosts.conf
> Include conf/mod_perl.conf
> 
> Finally, in conf/virtual_hosts.conf:
> 
> NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.200
> <VirtualHost 192.168.0.200>
> ServerName www.powerpull.net
> DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php4
> index.php3 index.cgi
> Options Indexes
> ServerAdmin webmaster at powerpull.net
> DocumentRoot /home/powerpull/html
> ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/powerpull.net-error_log
> CustomLog /var/log/httpd/powerpull.net-access_log common
> </VirtualHost>
> <VirtualHost 192.168.0.200>
> ServerName www.matchingmoms.com
> DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php4
> index.php3 index.cgi
> Options Indexes
> ServerAdmin webmaster at matchingmoms.com
> DocumentRoot /home/matchingmoms/html
> ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/matchingmoms.com-error_log
> CustomLog /var/log/httpd/matchingmoms.com-access_log common
> </VirtualHost>
> <VirtualHost 192.168.0.200>
> ServerName www.astroconsulting.net
> DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php4
> index.php3 index.cgi
> Options Indexes
> ServerAdmin webmaster at astroconsulting.net
> DocumentRoot /home/astroconsulting/html
> ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/astroconsulting.net-error_log
> CustomLog /var/log/httpd/astroconsulting.net-access_log common
> </VirtualHost>
> 
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