Why am I getting a permission denied error on my public folder?

Posted by Robin Fisher on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Robin Fisher
Published on 2010-05-31T18:52:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 19:03 UTC
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Hi all,

This one has got me stumped. I'm deploying a Rails 3 app to Slicehost running Apache 2 and Passenger. My server is running Ruby 1.9.1 using RVM.

I am receiving a permission denied error on the "public" folder in my app. My Virtual Host is setup as follows:

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName  sharerplane.com
  ServerAlias www.sharerplane.com
  ServerAlias *.sharerplane.com

  DocumentRoot /home/robinjfisher/public_html/sharerplane.com/current/public/

  <Directory "/home/robinjfisher/public_html/sharerplane.com/public/">
    AllowOverride all
    Options -MultiViews
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>

  PassengerDefaultUser robinjfisher

</VirtualHost>

I've tried the following things: trailing slash on public; no trailing slash on public; PassengerUserSwitching on and off; PassengerDefaultUser set and not set; with and without the block.

The public folder is owned by robinjfisher:www-data and Passenger is running as robinjfisher so I can't see why there are permission issues.

Does anybody have any thoughts?

Thanks

Robin

PS. Have disabled the site for the time being to avoid indexing so what is there currently is not the site in question.

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