Permission forbidden on localhost with apache2
- by N Alex
Here is what I am trying to do.
I tried to add another folder to apache and I get the following error when trying to acces testing/index.html.
The idea is that I would like to have for every customer a folder like /home/neagoe/Work/InterWebs/Projects/[PROJECT NAME]/CustomerProjects/website/dist.
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.
Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at testing Port 80
Here are the steps that I followed:
Step1:
sudo chmod a+x /home/neagoe/Work/InterWebs/Projects/testing/CustomerProjects/website/dist
Step2:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/neagoe/Work/InterWebs/Projects/testing/CustomerProjects/website/dist
sudo chmod -R 775 /home/neagoe/Work/InterWebs/Projects/testing/CustomerProjects/website/dist
Step3:
sudo adduser $USER www-data
Step4:
sudo a2enmod userdir
Step5:
sudo cp /etc/apache/sites-available/default /etc/apache/sites-available/testing
I edited the file /etc/apache/sites-available/testing so it looks like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName testing
DocumentRoot /home/neagoe/Work/InterWebs/Projects/testing/CustomerProjects/website/dist
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/neagoe/Work/InterWebs/Projects/testing/CustomerProjects/website/dist/ >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Step6:
I edited hosts ("/etc/hosts") so it looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 testing
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
Step7:
sudo a2ensite testing
sudo service apache2 restart
I searched for about 2 hours on the internet but I can't figure out what went wrong.
All the pages that I found following the same steps as described above.
I know there are similar questions here on the internet, but the answer is to change permission to the directory which I did on Step2.
I am sorry if this is really a duplicate but I could't find the right answer.
Thank you!
PS. I asked this also on AskUbuntu but didn't get any answers so I'm trying my luck here.
Edit:
There isn't much on the error log or the access log.
On the access.log:
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:28 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:29 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:31 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:32 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:33 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:34 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:35 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:23 +0300] "POST /wordpress-testing/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1376123003.7026669979095458984375 HTTP/1.0" 200 705 "-" "WordPress/3.6; http://localhost/wordpress-testing"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:36 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:37 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
::1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:23:38 +0300] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2013:11:31:32 +0300] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 485 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0"
And the last line repeats for about 200 rows.
On the error.log:
1. This lines repeat from time to time.
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20100525 /msql.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20100525/msql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
[Sat Aug 10 13:06:42 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.9-4ubuntu2.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Aug 10 13:07:36 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20100525/msql.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20100525/msql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
[Sat Aug 10 13:07:37 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.9-4ubuntu2.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
2. And this is the predominant error. (hundreds of lines)
[Sat Aug 10 13:07:40 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied
