I am trying to setup a vhost to a users home directory,
I have the directory chmod 0775 and 0664 for the files inside

here is my vhost entry:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName gideon.federationirc.net
<Directory "/home/gideon/public_html">
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ServerAdmin webmaster@gideon.federationirc.net
DocumentRoot /home/gideon/public_html
ErrorLog /home/gideon/gideon.federationirc.net-error_log
CustomLog /home/gideon/gideon.federationirc.net-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
ive tried it without the <Directory> Entry in there, same error
Exact error is as follows :

Forbidden

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

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.49 (Fedora) Server at gideon.federationirc.net Port 80

Please Help me, I have looked, tried everything I could to my knowlege.
there is a valid index.html file there
same one i use for my main /var/www/html
and it works. No trouble at all

Thank you
Derek Graham
email me, graham at federationirc.net

I don't know if it's necessary but I have a trainling "/" on the end of the directory names in my httpd.conf

Also you could try "Options Indexes" in your <Directory > section, this should allow a directory list and may indicate if it's a problem with the file or the virtual host.

Hope this helps.

Mike

I had this problem. In my case it was beacause /home/gideon directory dint have the right permissions..

try giving /home/gideon 755 or 775 as appropriate and see if that works...

thanks it works now, home directory wasnt set correctly