Apache "Forbidden" when using vhosts

owdawg · n00b Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 7

I keep getting 403 "Forbidden" when trying to access directories outside of /home/httpd/htdocs and ~/public_html, I checked my directory permissions by switching them between 644 and 755 I even changed ownership to apache but i keep getting 403 "Forbidden" on directories such as /home/username/test1.mydomain.com and /home/username2/test2.mydomain.com.

delta407 · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2002 10:20 pm Post subject:

From /etc/apache/conf/commonapache.conf:

owdawg · n00b Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 7

yep that was the problem

thanks a lot

whit

If you change DocumentRoot in apache.conf and don't go to the section in the midst of commonapache.conf which says "This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. " and enter the revised root there, you'll run into this permissions problem unless you've removed the restriction below - one or the other is needed. What tricked me is that commonapache.conf says of DocumentRoot at the top of it "DO NOT MODIFY THIS ONE, USE apache.conf", without mentioning that there is a setting in commonapache.conf below that still needs to be modified if you change DocumentRoot.