Error 403 Forbidden -- permissions on apache2, tomcat6, mod_proxy

Question

I'm not a complete beginner and sorry for posting an ambiguous question that has been posted in other slightly various forms so numerously. Anyway I get this error:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at gookie.localhost Port 80

I have apache2 proxying a tomcat6. here are the details:

• the tomcat install is at /home/ae1/lib/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.29
• ln -s /home/ae1/lib/java/apache-tomcat-6.0.29 /var/www/tomcat6
• http.conf:

<Directory "/var/www/tomcat6/webapps/springapp">
    Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
    AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
            Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

• /etc/hosts has this entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost gookie.localhost
• /etc/apache2/sites-available/gookie.localhost.conf

<VirtualHost *:80 >
  ServerName gookie.localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www/tomcat6/webapps/springapp
  DirectoryIndex index.jsp index.html index.htm index.php

  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/springapp
  ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/springapp
</VirtualHost>

<Directory "/home/www/tomcat6/webapps/springapp">
        Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
        AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

• the /var/www/tomcat6/conf/server.xml file has:

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               redirectPort="8443"
           proxyName="gookie.localhost"
               />

I had proxyPort="80" in server.xml and still no luck.

Any thoughts on this?

Answer 1

The solution is to have this in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/proxy.conf:

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
    ProxyRequests Off
    <Proxy *>
        AddDefaultCharset off 
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all 
    </Proxy>
</IfModule>