Is the correct forum for this question. I am not an expert and have not found an answer after several hours of looking on Google. I also checked the Similar Threads listing.

I want to set up localhost subdomains in an Apache/2.2.11 (Fedora) Server. Here are the changes I made to httpd.conf:
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
#
..
<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/bobn/test
ServerName test.localhost
<Directory "/home/bobn/test">
Options All
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
ErrorLog logs/test_error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

I added a test page, boo.html, to home/bobn/test. When I enter test.localhost.boo.html into Firefox I get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /test/index.php on this server.

The httpd error_log shows no error but test_error_log lists the following:
[Wed Jun 10 04:27:59 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /boo.html denied


The permissions for boo.html are
-rwxrwx--- 1 bobn apache 391 2009-06-09 18:37 boo.html

I have disabled SELinux until I can solve this problem.

Removing the <Directory> element from <VirtualHost *:80> produces the same result.

What should I try next?.

Thanks in Advance,
Bob N

Try

That did the trick when I had the problem.

I changed the permissions for ../test and ../test/boo.html to 777. It looks like the problem is not permissions.

Thanks for your suggestion.

I changed the VirtualHost element to the following
<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/bobn/projects/test
ServerName test.localhost
<Directory "/home/bobn/projects/test">
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
ErrorLog logs/test_error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>


I still get the same access denied error message in test_error-Log

Thanks,
Bob N

I would assume that on Fedora, using a doc root in /home that it's SELinux related.

Can you try (as root) "setenforce 0", try again and report back.

The command returned "SELinux is disabled". A page reload returns the same error message in httpd/logs/test_error_log...access denied.

I expect there is some change in Apache 2.2.11 that requires a new setting in httpd.conf. Looks like a dead end to me. I have no clue how to look for a thing like that. I am going to try a 127.0.0.2 based virtual host and see if that works.

Thanks,
Bob N

[edit - forget this comment]

You're also going to want to check permissions on each parent directory in the path.

For example, is /home/bobn world readable/executable?