Web Server Issues Centos

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 19:01 -0700, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
> I am having a problem that for the life of me I cannot solve.  I am setting 
> up a basic web server on Centos5 duplicating a setup I have on Centos4.  My 
> old setup is on a slow server that has some hardware failing randomly.
> 
> I have the standard apache setup that I have appended with the following 
> information I have at the bottom of the email.  When I try to access a basic 
> index.html file that I created in the folder /home/gilbert/pub_html/html I 
> get:
> "Forbidden
> 
> You don't have permission to access / on this server.
> Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at www.test.net Port 80"
> 
> 
> SELinux is disabled
> Apache is set to debug on the logging
> The machine I have accessing the server has a modified hosts file pointing 
> test.net and www.test.net to 172.16.5.134
> The error file gives me:
> "(13)Permission denied: access to / denied"
> The access file gives me:
> "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 286
> 
> 
> If I remove my mods, and put a test index file into /var/www/html/, the 
> system works fine (just no virtual hosts).  I am puzzled since the server 
> does not have any issues with my config file and the file is identical (with 
> the exception that this file has only one virtual domain name and the ip) to 
> my config file on my online server that contains multiple domains.
> 
> Can someone lead me to the promiss land?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gilbert
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------ httpd.conf mod ------------------
> 
> NameVirtualHost 172.16.5.134:80
> 
> <Directory "/home/*/pub_html/html">
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride AuthConfig
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> <Directory "/home/*/pub_html/cgi-bin">
>     AllowOverride AuthConfig
>     # AllowOverride None
>     Options None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> <Directory "/home/*/pub_html/icons">
>     Options Indexes MultiViews
>     AllowOverride None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> 
> <VirtualHost 172.16.5.134:80>
>     ServerAdmin gilbert at test.net
>     DocumentRoot /home/gilbert/pub_html/html
>     ServerName test.net
>     ServerAlias www.test.net
>     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/gilbert/pub_html/cgi-bin/
>     Alias /icons/ /home/gilbert/pub_html/icons/
>     ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/test.net-error_log
>     CustomLog /var/log/httpd/test.net-access_log common
> </VirtualHost> 
----
Nothing says you can't do it this way (name based virtual hosts) but if
you look in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf - you will find the line, 

# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
    # of a username on the system (depending on home directory
#<Directory /home/*/public_html>

which is the apache standard way of serving users home directories.

Of course the 'apache' user must be able to descend and read the files
in the various /home/*/public_html directories as well.

Craig


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