forbidden directory (apache 1.3.29)

[adpowers]

Hello. I am running Apache 1.3.29. I trasfered, by hand, the virtual hosts from my old computer to this new Gentoo one. However, I have a problem. Whenever I point my browser to the web server, it gives me 403 Forbidden. If I request / or /index.html, it still says forbidden. This is what I get in my server logs:

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[Tue Dec 16 14:33:39 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.123] (13)Permission denied: access to / failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path

This happens to anything I try to request. Any help would be greatly apprieciated.

Andrew

PS: Could this be a problem with suEXEC? The Document Root for this virtual server is located in the home folder under www (/home/*/www).

[chtof]

Do you have something like :

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<Directory /home>
#
# This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes",
# "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews".
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
    Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
#
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
    AllowOverride All
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
    <IfModule mod_access.c>
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </IfModule>
</Directory>

in /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf ?

[adpowers]

Well, I am running Apache1 and this is part of commonapache.conf:

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<Directory /home>

#
# This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes",
# "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews".
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

#
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo", 
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
    AllowOverride All

#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

It wasn't /home before, it was the another directory, but it still doesn't work. Here is part of the Vhosts config:

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<VirtualHost *>
 DocumentRoot /home/<username>/www/iis
 ServerName microshaft.com
 ServerAlias microshaft.com *.microshaft.com
 DirectoryIndex index.html

 <Directory /home/<username>/www/iis>
  Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Includes IncludesNOEXEC Indexes MultiViews
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost> 

That virtual host is supposed to match any that don't have a domain specified, so that people just typing in my IP address will be taken to an different web page.

Thanks,
Andrew

[adpowers]

Two other things to mention, not sure if they are important. First, I emerged apache as root. Could that be causing problems?

Second, in the config file, I have Apache set to run with user apache and grou p apache. There wasn't originally a user named apache (even though that has been the setting all along), so I created one. Also, I've adding the User and Group command to the virtual domain (with the username of the home directory that hosts the files) with no effect.

Andrew

[ixion]

It wasn't /home before, it was the another directory, but it still doesn't work. Here is part of the Vhosts config:

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<VirtualHost *>
 DocumentRoot /home/<username>/www/iis
 ServerName microshaft.com
 ServerAlias microshaft.com *.microshaft.com
 DirectoryIndex index.html

 <Directory /home/<username>/www/iis>
  Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Includes IncludesNOEXEC Indexes MultiViews
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost> 

That virtual host is supposed to match any that don't have a domain specified, so that people just typing in my IP address will be taken to an different web page.

Thanks,
Andrew

whoot! I had this same problem, but using your above config and adding "NameVirtualHost *" to the beginning of my virtual config file solved it! Thank You!