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Louis
Asked: 2016-01-23 00:14:45 +0800 CST

Apache2 change localhost directory on Ubuntu 14.04

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After a fresh install of Ubuntu, I am trying to change the localhost directory of Apache2 (2.4.7). As always, it's not simple at all and it doesn't work right now.

Here's what I have done so far:

$sudo apt-get install apache2

Then in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /home/louisro/Documents/www>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:

#DocumentRoot /var/www/html
DocumentRoot /home/louisro/Documents/www

in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf:

#DocumentRoot /var/www/html
DocumentRoot /home/louisro/Documents/www

Then

$ sudo chmod go+r /home/louisro/Documents/www
$ sudo chown -R louisro:www-data /home/louisro/Documents/www

When I try to access localhost throught the browser, I get:

Forbidden

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

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

And the log gives:

$ cat /var/log/apache2/error.log
[Fri Jan 22 09:13:38.792577 2016] [core:error] [pid 12934:tid 140432965080832] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:56772] AH00035: access to / denied (filesystem path '/home/louisro/Documents') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
14.04

4 Answers

  1. Here's what solved the problem:

    $ sudo chmod 745 /home/louisro/Documents ;
sudo chmod 745 /home/louisro ;
sudo chmod 745 /home
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  2. Try to change apache2.conf to:

    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    UserDir enable louisro
    UserDir public_html
</IfModule>
<Directory /home/*/Documents/www>    
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All   
    Require all granted
</Directory>

    Command:

    $ sudo chmod 755 /home/louisro/Documents/www
$ sudo chown -R louisro /home/louisro/Documents/www

    remove .htaccess if exist and create index.txt file then try to access http://localhost/index.txt

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  3. You are missing one essential step. After modifying the default DocumentRoot in 000-default.conf. To take effect you should enable 000-default.conf and restart apache2.

    sudo a2ensite 000-default.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
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  4. I solved as:

    First, I gave permission to the directory root. In my case this directory was:

    /home/paulo/Documentos/SERVER

    I run the following command:

    $ sudo chmod 777 -R /home/paulo/Documentos/SERVER

    After, I edited the file apache2.conf with the following command:

    $ sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

    In the apache.conf I changed the following lines:

    to

    And I edited the file 000-default.conf in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf. I changed the following lines:

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html to DocumentRoot /home/paulo/Documentos/SERVER

    Finally, I restarted the apache with the following command:

    sudo systemctl restart apache2

    I really hope this run in your machine;

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