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== error 403 with virtual hosts ==
 
== error 403 with virtual hosts ==
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Working with virtual hosts under Apache2 is pretty easy, but I had some trouble
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getting started due to some unclear docs and lack of examples.
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My biggest problem was the "HTTP 403 / client denied by server configuration error".
  
 
The browser reports 403 errors for all documents in the virtual host root path.
 
The browser reports 403 errors for all documents in the virtual host root path.
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Allow access by adding a <directory> section inside the <vhost> section.
 
Allow access by adding a <directory> section inside the <vhost> section.
 
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<pre>
 
<directory /vhost_document_root>
 
<directory /vhost_document_root>
 
allow from all
 
allow from all
 
<directory>
 
<directory>
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</pre>
  
 
The following should give a better idea of how this should work:
 
The following should give a better idea of how this should work:
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     ServerAlias palermo.example.com
 
     ServerAlias palermo.example.com
 
     DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/palermo
 
     DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/palermo
 
 
     <directory /var/www/vhosts/palermo>
 
     <directory /var/www/vhosts/palermo>
 
     allow from all
 
     allow from all
 
     </directory>
 
     </directory>
 
 
</VirtualHost>
 
</VirtualHost>
 
</pre>
 
</pre>
  
It is strange that neither the sample httpd-vhosts.conf file nor the Apache2
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It is strange that neither the sample httpd-vhosts.conf file that comes with Apache2
documentation on VirtualHost gives a example that could work.
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nor the Apache2 documentation on VirtualHost gives a example that could work.

Revision as of 16:33, 25 July 2006

error 403 with virtual hosts

Working with virtual hosts under Apache2 is pretty easy, but I had some trouble getting started due to some unclear docs and lack of examples. My biggest problem was the "HTTP 403 / client denied by server configuration error".

The browser reports 403 errors for all documents in the virtual host root path. A tail of the error.log gives a message like this for each access attempt:

[Tue Jul 25 17:58:17 2006] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/vhosts/palermo/

The problem is that the extra/httpd-vhosts.conf is missing the directive to allow access to the directory.

Allow access by adding a <directory> section inside the <vhost> section.

<directory /vhost_document_root>
allow from all
<directory>

The following should give a better idea of how this should work:

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName palermo.example.com
    ServerAlias palermo.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/palermo
    <directory /var/www/vhosts/palermo>
    allow from all
    </directory>
</VirtualHost>

It is strange that neither the sample httpd-vhosts.conf file that comes with Apache2 nor the Apache2 documentation on VirtualHost gives a example that could work.