Apache "Forbidden You Don't have permission problem"

[Hawki]

Help

I'm having problems when I type to access the Web page I get this error "Forbidden You Don't have permission to access / on this server". Also, here is what I have done:

1. Modified the Hosts file:

192.168.1.200 vhost1.mydomain.com


2.httpd.conf VirtualHost Section

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.200>
UserCanonicalname off
ServerName vhost1.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/hawkins
</VirtualHost>

 

[Hawki]

The OS is Redhat 7.1

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

On Redhat, the main server starts as root to bind to port 80 but then spawns listener tasks running under the user 'apache' (& group 'apache'). The default location for content is under /var/

http://www/html

so if you use another location you would need to ensure that the 'apache' user (or group) at least has read access. This would not be the case by default in your home directory.

Once that problem is solved its a matter of security permissions. Make sure you have something like this in httpd.conf :

order allow,deny
allow from all

Hope this helps