Apache VirtualHost 403 Forbidden

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I recently tried to set a test server up with Apache. The site must run under domain www.mytest.com. I always get a 403 Forbidden error. I am on Ubuntu 10.10 server edition. The doc root is under dir /var/www. The following are my settings:

Content of /var/www

ls -l /var/www/

total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-08-04 11:26 mytest.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 177 2011-07-25 16:10 index.html

Content of the host file on the server (with IP 192.168.2.5)

cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost 
127.0.1.1 americano
192.168.2.5 americano.mytest.com www.mytest.com

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Site config

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin admin@mytest.com
ServerName www.mytest.com
ServerAlias mytest.com

DocumentRoot "/var/www/mytest.com"

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/mytest-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/mytest-access_log combined

#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/var/www/mytest.com">
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I have no .htaccess file in my doc root. The permissions are set correctly (readable by www-data).

If I type in the IP address from my desktop, the site shows up correctly. I changed the hosts file on my desktop to point www.mytest.com to the server's IP. When I use it, I get 403. Since many functions of this site are sitename-sensitive, I have to be able to access the site by the domain name.

Another funky thing is, even if all log files are created properly, they have no information regarding this error.

I am stuck. Can anybody help?

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12 Answers

This works on Linux Fedora for VirtualHost : ( Lampp/Xampp )

Go to : /opt/lampp/etc/extra

Open : httpd-vhosts.conf

Insert this in httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin mail@domain.com
DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/APPS/My_App"
ServerName votemo.test
ServerAlias www.votemo.test
ErrorLog "logs/votemo.test-error_log"
CustomLog "logs/votemo.test-access_log" common
<Directory "/opt/lampp/APPS/My_App">
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

p.s. : Don't forget to comment the previous exemple already present in httpd-vhosts.conf

Set your hosts system file :

Go to : /etc/ folder find hosts file ( /etc/hosts )

I insert this : (but not sure to 100% if this good)

127.0.0.1       votemo.test

::1         votemo.test

-> Open or Restart Apache.

Open a console and paste this command for open a XAMPP graphic interface :

sudo /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run

Note : Adjust path how you want to your app folder

ex: DocumentRoot "/home/USER/Desktop/My_Project"

and set directory path too :

ex : ... <Directory "/home/USER/Desktop/My_Project"> ...

But this should be tested, comment if this work ...

Additionnal notes :

  • Localisation Lampp folder : (Path) /opt/lampp

  • Start Lampp : sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

  • Adjust rights if needed : sudo chmod o+w /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run

  • Path to hosts file : /etc/hosts

user_76276960

I had this issue on Arch Linux too... it costs me some time but I'm happy now that I found my mistake:

My directory with the .html files where in my account.
I set everything on r+x but I still got the 403 error.
Than I went completely back and tried to set my home-directory to execute which solved my problem.

user_110351940

It could be you haven't setup PHP~!

user_12579160

I was having the same problem with apache2.4

  1. Check config virtual host:
   <Directory /var/www/html/path/to/index>
           Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
           AllowOverride All
           Require all granted
   </Directory>
  1. Specific index.php file.

We need a index.php or index.html in /var/www/html/path/to/index.

user_60210290
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