Hey All,

First off, I have checked the similar threads and they were of no help. Further, I have read all of the Apache documentation and followed it to the letter, with no luck. I've also searched the web until my fingers have bled, without finding a clue.

So, here's the deal, I'm trying to host my own website, a website for my church and a website for a local ministry involving multiple churches, all from my one little system. I've got DNS through DynDNS.org pointing to:

pekinsoft.homelinux.org

cbpekin.homelinux.org

hope.homelinux.org

respectively.

No matter what advice I've followed, I continually get a "403 Forbidden" message for each and everyone of these web hops. I am running on Slackware 12.2, using Apache 2.2.10. Slackware breaks all configurations down to specific areas by having general configuration in the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file and configuration for things like Virtual Hosts in a separate file, such as /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. I've configured the Virtual Hosts both in the httpd.conf file (to no avail) and then in the extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file (also, to no avail), but NEVER in both at the same time for fear of throwing the server daemon into conniptions.

My Virtual Hosts configuration file is as follows:

#
# Virtual Hosts
#
# 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 192.168.1.2:80

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80>
ServerAdmin PekinSOFT@gmail.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs/pekinsoft"
ServerName pekinsoft.homelinux.org
ServerAlias pekinsoft
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/pekinsoft-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/pekinsoft-access_log" common

<Directory "/var/www/htdocs/pekinsoft">
Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
</Directory>

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm default.php default.html default.htm
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80>
ServerAdmin BrknShldr@gmail.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs/cbpekin"
ServerName cbpekin.homelinux.org
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/cbpekin-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/cbpekin-access_log" common

<Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cbpekin">
Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
</Directory>

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm default.php default.html default.htm
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80>
ServerAdmin BrknShldr@gmail.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs/hope"
ServerName hope.homelinux.org
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/hope-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/hope-access_log" common

<Directory "/var/www/htdocs/hope">
Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
</Directory>

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm default.php default.html default.htm
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>
</VirtualHost>

My httpd.conf calls this file, thus:

# Virtual hosts
Include /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

The permissions on my directories are: owner-rwx; group-rwx; world-r-x. It is so for all subfolders as well. I read on one site to change the ownership of the server document root to the same user the server runs as ('apache' on my system) and I tried this, but it did not work. I have set the group on my document root to a group of my own design to allow me to edit files directly from my user account and I have also added the user 'apache' to that group, again to no avail.

I have been working on this problem for about 3 weeks now and am getting very frustrated, though the phrase "give it up" is NOT in my vocabulary. My pastor asks me every week if the site is on the internet and I am tired of telling him no. The site is almost completely written, but I can't seem to get my server to cooperate.

Any help that you all can give me is very gratefully appreciated! I look forward to finding out how much of an idiot I truly am for not being able to get this working. I am pretty sure that I am overlooking something simple.

By the way, the error log has not been very helpful. I get the same message again and again which boils down to "the user can't do that." The message is:

[Tue Apr 14 12:05:47 2009] [error] [client 12.215.62.55] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/htdocs/cbpekin/

Also, if I point my browser to "http://localhost/", I get the default "It Works!" page, so I know that my server is running and this is something to do with the Virtual Hosts configuration.

Thanks again for any help you all can give.

Cheers,

Sean Carrick
PekinSOFT Systems

Try to add "Allow from all" after "Order allow,deny" and see if it helps.

bathory,

Thank you very much! That did the trick...I now have virtual hosts that are actually working. I truly can't thank you enough.

Cheers,

Sean Carrick
PekinSOFT Systems