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Oskar K.
Asked: 2014-10-26 00:48:24 +0800 CST

Forbidden - for a php webiste with apache, although it shouldn't be

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I can't run a php from my custom location:

$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>


  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
  DocumentRoot /home/alex/Documents/var_www_html


  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet


$ ls -l  ~/Documents/var_www_html
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 dir1
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 dir2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex  493 Oct 25 16:37 file1.inc.php
drwxr-xr-x 3 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 css
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 3638 Oct 25 16:37 favicon.ico
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 images
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 2091 Oct 25 16:37 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 3 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 js
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 lib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 1081 Oct 25 16:37 LICENSE
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex  719 Oct 25 16:37 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 tpl
drwxr-xr-x 3 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 website_itself

$ ls -ld  ~/Documents/var_www_html
drwxr-xr-x 10 alex alex 4096 Oct 25 16:37 /home/alex/Documents/var_www_html

The error is:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

How come?

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. That error is caused from not having a statement such as the one below within you VirtualHost or in a block etc, or any other block like this:

    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

    To allow the listing of directory contents, because no default file was found. You can specify a default file with a statement such as the one below in a similar area (so in the VirtualHost, Location etc:

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.gz error.php idx.php index.html  index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml

    Did you have mod_php loaded? Have you thought about using perl under FCGI instead, generally its a bit more secure.

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