I set up a directory on a separate volume called "mnt/Apps/WEBSITES" and have a subdir under that with a website
(I'll call it website1 for reference).
I set up a virtual website in Apache and set the path to "/mnt/Apps/WEBSITES/website1" and it has a file index.html

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I get a 403 Forbidden error when loading the site. So I did some looking around and found the following page:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch20_:_The_Apache_Web_Server
and proceeded to use the chcon command to apply to my new path and ran the following:

# ls -Z
drwx------. root root system_ubject_r:file_t:s0 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x. nbadmin webadmins unconfined_ubject_r:httpd_sys_script_exec_t:s0 WEBSITES

I verified that all the subdirs had the same context as well, yet I still have the same 403 error (I stop/start Apache).

What am I doing wrong here?

Does anyone know where there might be a place to look for an answer to this?
A simple how to change your directory tutorial would be nice with all the steps involved including EXACTLY what permissions, what accounts are needed and show an actual example that works.
The default page shows up, but as soon as I add another virtual website (on the other hard drive), bam! 403 permission error. Adding a site to the default folder (as in every "hello world" tutorial on the web) works just fine, but it must be on another drive.

Apache version 2.2.15
CentOS 6.3

side note: This was a default installation on a brand new server, and, the Apache test page shows up, but it doesn't exist at "/var/www/html" directory (I even logged in as root to make sure I wasn't crazy), nor an .htaccess file. Madness.

the directory must be chmod 555 (dr-xr-xr-x) for it to work, preferably 755 (drwxr-xr-x) so the owner (you) have permission to write to the directory.

The directory & file permissions are clearly not the problem in my case - all directories are 775 except the outer most branch "webroot" which is set to 755.
The security context appears to be the problem, but where?

From another forum was suggested to run the "setenforce permissive" command - I did, and now it works. Now I have to figure out how to get this to work with SELinux turned on.

hmm
post the following

your httpd.conf

the output of the 'mount' command

the output of 'ls -lR' of /mnt

the httpd.conf is too long to post on this forum. any particular section?

the virtualhost section preferably

### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
#
# VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
#NameVirtualHost *:80
#
# NOTE: NameVirtualHost cannot be used without a port specifier
# (e.g. :80) if mod_ssl is being used, due to the nature of the
# SSL protocol.
#

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>
ServerName ammsrv2.mydomain.com
<VirtualHost 10.10.46.235>
DocumentRoot "/mnt/Apps/WEBSITES/mydomain_Com/webroot"
ServerName staging2.mydomain.com
<Directory "/mnt/Apps/WEBSITES/mydomain_Com/webroot">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

mount


/dev/mapper/vg_nbweb-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_ubject_r:tmpfs_t:s0")
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
/dev/mapper/vg_nbweb-lv_home on /home type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/Apps type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev)

.:
total 12
drwxrwxrwx. 5 nbadmin users 4096 Feb 13 15:22 Apps
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 31 09:42 boot
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 31 09:42 home

./Apps:
total 20
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Jan 31 10:44 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x. 3 root root 4096 Feb 12 08:26 WEBSITES

./Apps/lost+found:
total 0

./Apps/WEBSITES:
total 4
drwxrwxr-x. 4 root root 4096 Feb 15 13:20 mydomain_Com

./Apps/WEBSITES/mydomain_Com:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 13:04 test
drwxrwxr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 15 13:25 webroot

./Apps/WEBSITES/mydomain_Com/test:
total 0

./Apps/WEBSITES/mydomain_Com/webroot:
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 162 Feb 15 13:25 index.html

./boot:
total 0

./home:
total 0

paste all the content inside code tags: http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=15 (it creates a reasonably area with scrolls)

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