403 errors and virtual hosts

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by tommywds, Jun 26, 2006.

  1. tommywds

    tommywds New Member

    Hi guys

    I've just installed FC5 and I'm want to host a few sites on it. I've read up on Virtual Hosts, and it seams OK and not too complex. So I gave it a stab and made all the settings to the httpd config file. At the end of the file I added the following

    Code:
    NameVirtualHost *:80
    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName bob.office.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DocumentRoot /home/tom/public_html
        ErrorLog /home/tom/logs/bob.office.com
    </VirtualHost>
    I have a DNS server in the building which has a record for bob.office.com to resolve to 192.168.0.145 (the internal address for my Fedora Server)

    However now that I have created my Virtual Hosts I get 403 errors every time I visit bob.office.com.

    HTML:
    <h1>Forbidden</h1>
    <p>You don't have permission to access /
    on this server.</p>
    <p>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden
    error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
    <hr>
    <address>Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora) Server at bob.office.com Port 80</address>
    Can anyone point me in the right direction??? I created the folder /home/tom/public_html as user tom and tried as root also but still 403 errors.

    Thanks in advance guys.
     
  2. platd

    platd New Member

    Have you setup a virtual host section for the default host ?
    Do the other virtual hosts work ?
    What does ErrorLog /home/tom/logs/bob.office.com say if any thing.
    I think you may need an Allow directive for the newer version of apache for that directory.
    I am a bit rusty with apache since moving to lighttpd

    Good luck
     
  3. tommywds

    tommywds New Member

    Hi

    turns out I needed to change the permissions on the tom folder
    Works a treat now :)

    Thanks for you help!
     
  4. vlsimpson

    vlsimpson New Member

    403 Forbidden's are almost always filesystem permission problems.
     

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