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waxical
Asked: 2011-10-26 02:29:03 +0800 CST

403 on Setting up Apache on Amazon Basic AMI

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I'm in the midst of setting up a standard web server on EC2. However, I'm just getting a 403 error on remote access, despite following tutorials (which describe a very simple process).

So far, I have

  1. Installed httpd and associating
  2. Mounted /var/www/vhosts/foo to an s3 bucket dir.
  3. Installed php

  4. Edited httpd conf adding a NameVirtualHost *:80, a

    <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/foo/*bar*">
Satisfy Any
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

and a

SuexecUserGroup root root

and a 

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName foo.mydomain.com
  ServerAlias mydomain.com
  ServerAdmin [email protected]
  DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/foo/bar/htdocs
  CustomLog /var/www/vhosts/fooh/bar/logs/access.log common
  ErrorLog /var/www/vhosts/foo/bar/logs/error.log
  SuexecUserGroup root root
  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/vhosts/foo/cgi-bin.bar/"
</VirtualHost>

Now, I'm aware root isn't great at this stage. But, until the problem is sorted I haven't gone about changing that.

I've restarted httpd - I just get 403 errors. I can see the hits on access.log on the subdomain etc. so it is getting through (via my foo.mydomain.com) - but it's not going past a 403 and I can't figure out a reason why. All the tutorials say this is mega easy.

linux apache-2.2 amazon-ec2

1 Answers

  1. The error log should be the first point of call. What does:

      /var/www/vhosts/foo/bar/logs/error.log

    Show?

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