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Apache cant see document root

I have set up apache on Centos 5.5 and am struggling with vhosts set up.

With the config I have set apache will correctly serve sites with a document root of

/var/www/html

/home/myuser/public_html

but not

/home/myuser/projects

> ls -al
shows public_html and projects as having identical permissions (755)

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 6 myuser myuser 4096 Feb  8 10:05 .

drwxr-xr-x 3 root    root    4096 Feb  7 15:37 ..

drwxr-xr-x 4 myuser myuser 4096 Feb  7 17:21 projects

drwxr-xr-x 4 myuser myuser 4096 Feb  9 10:21 public_html

and for the purposes of testing both directories contain an index.html file with the same 755 permission.

When I restart the httpd service I get:

Code:

[root@localhost conf]# service httpd restart

Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]

Starting httpd: Warning: DocumentRoot [/home/myuser/projects] does not exist

                                                          [  OK  ]

My vhosts file contains:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName test.localdev

  DocumentRoot /home/myuser/projects



  <Directory "/home/myuser/projects">

    options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride All

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

  </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

I only have one vhosts file at the moment so for my test I change the DocumentRoot and Directory between projects and public_html, restarting httpd between each change.

Apache error log shows:

Code:

[Wed Feb 09 11:22:24 2011] [error] [client 172.16.55.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

[Wed Feb 09 11:22:24 2011] [error] [client 172.16.55.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied

and I get a 403 in the web browser.

I am confused as to what is going on... Everything works if I set doc root and dir as /home/myuser/public_html, but not /home/myuser/projects

hi,
As a trial jst give project folder full permission and try.then configure required permission.

I have just set projects and the projects/index.html file to 777, but Apache is still reporting the same problem and I'm still getting a 403 in the browser. (I did restart the httpd service.)

Your Virtualhost tag does not seem to end anywhere. Just a typo or something?

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya (Post 4252906)

Your Virtualhost tag does not seem to end anywhere. Just a typo or something?

Yeah, sorry. It was on the next page when I copied the text so I missed it.
It is there, and I have added it to the op.

hi,
403 seems something related to permission for webuser
can u do one thing.jst backup the projects directory then take a copy of public_html ,rename it to projects and give a try.
if its ok copy contents from backuped project folder.
jst a suggestion.

You can for time being turn off the SELinux and see if it works. Just check.

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya (Post 4252916)

You can for time being turn off the SELinux and see if it works. Just check.

Great, that worked! Thanks.

I did

Code:

[root@localhost myuser]# echo 0 >/selinux/enforce

[root@localhost myuser]# cat /selinux/enforce

0

And now it works. So, whats going on there? I dont know what SELinux is - just quickly googled to find out how to turn it off. Is it safe to leave it off?

Quote:

Originally Posted by appilu (Post 4252912)

Ok, odd.

So I re-enabled SELinux
Backed up projects to projects.bac
Moved public_html to projects
- and now that one works. Apache restarts fine and serves the page.
So I copied projects back to public_html
- and now public_html doesnt work. It gives the same errors that projects used to.

?!!

You will need to configure SELinux to allow apache to read from your home directory. If your system is not a production apache server, you can safely turn SELinux off. You can go to SELinux configuration tool from GUI and configure it to allow apache to read the directories if you want it running. Your take. I keep it off on non production machines.

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya (Post 4252984)

Brilliant. Thanks for your help. httpd_enable_homedirs was set to 1 which was fine, but of course my project directory did not have the right context for Apache to serve files from it.

The solution was to do

Code:

chmod 711 /home/myuser

chmod 755 /home/myuser/public_html

chmod 755 /home/myuser/projects

setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/myuser/public_html

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/myuser/projects

service httpd restart

I found this here, after I searched for help on configuring SELinux as a result of the above posts.

Thanks again guys.

Great you got it working.