Install Apache 2.4.7 on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I have a following problem. Install Apache 2.4.7 on Ubuntu. I created file in directory /etc/apache2/sites-available/

<VirtualHost ooo.net:80>

ServerName ooo.net
ServerAlias www.ooo.net
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /home/user/ooo/

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

in hosts

127.0.0.1   ooo.net
127.0.1.1   pc

I visited ooo.net and saw following result

Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

What am I doing wrong?

error.log -

[Sat Apr 12 19:30:57.276525 2014] [core:error] [pid 1213:tid 140219565360896] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:37136] AH00035: access to / denied (filesystem path '/home/user/ooo') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Sat Apr 12 19:30:57.539816 2014] [core:error] [pid 1213:tid 140219556968192] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:37136] AH00035: access to /favicon.ico denied (filesystem path '/home/user/ooo') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path

access.log -

127.0.0.1 - - [12/Apr/2014:19:30:57 +0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 495 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/33.0.1750.152 Chrome/33.0.1750.152 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [12/Apr/2014:19:30:57 +0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 403 505 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/33.0.1750.152 Chrome/33.0.1750.152 Safari/537.36"

ls -ltr after first answer -

drwxr-sr-x 2 user www-data   4096 апр.  10 20:41 errors
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   9062 апр.  10 20:41 about.htm
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   7116 апр.  10 20:41 admin.htm
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   2884 апр.  10 20:41 admin_art.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data 367112 апр.  10 20:41 ARIAL.TTF
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   4767 апр.  10 20:41 admin_d2.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   2958 апр.  10 20:41 admin_exb.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   2369 апр.  10 20:41 admin_faq.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   1846 апр.  10 20:41 admin_fbk.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   1791 апр.  10 20:41 admin_fbk2.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   2657 апр.  10 20:41 admin_gbk.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   3881 апр.  10 20:41 admin_frm.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   2616 апр.  10 20:41 admin_gbl.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   8197 апр.  10 20:41 admin_img.inc
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user www-data   7352 апр.  10 20:41 admin_new.inc

Answer 1

The problem relies in the fact that Apache default configuration is a bit more restrictive from 2.4.3 onwards. Directories outside the default Document Root are prohibited by default and have to be enabled explicitly. See: Install Apache web server on Ubuntu 13.10

Basically you should add:

Require all granted

Underneath somewhere under the Directory directive.

Answer 2

Your webserver is running as www-data. Therefore you need to add the user account that owns your new docroot to this www-data group using the following command.

xxx$ sudo usermod -a -G groupName userName

where groupname is www-data and userName is your username that owns the docroot.

You can reference this SO answer that explains why you are doing this.

Lastly, that command I asked you to execute the first time, ls -ltr would have provided all the info I needed to answer this yesterday. If your going to ask questions, please provide the details asked for when asked.

Hope this helps, Pat

Answer 3

Just in case any other user have same problem. From Ubuntu 14.04, if you are hosting virtual host outside of /var/www or /usr/share, you need to add the path to white list in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. In this case, like this

<Directory /home/user/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

Of course, permission need to be granted like @ptheo suggested

Answer 4

They changed something with how they handle files. By default apache can only access files in /var/www or /usr/share. I just changed my folder over to be under /usr/share and the necessary configurations and voila. There is more guidance in the default index.html file at /var/www/html/index.html. Hope this helps.