Vagrant synced folder permission issue with apache

Question

I'm running a Centos6.4 box.

Running vagrant up without the synced folder config in Vagrant file is fine. I can access on my host machine via http://localhost:8080 and it displays the Apache page. I could create index.html in /var/www/html folder and it displays fine too.

However after adding the line below in the Vagrant file, visiting the page displays 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. error instead:

config.vm.synced_folder "./source", "/var/www/html", :extra=>"dmode=777,fmode=777"

Going into the VM I see the permission set as below in /var/www:

drwxr-xr-x.  6 root    root    4.0K Jul 20 23:15 .
drwxr-xr-x. 18 root    root    4.0K Jul 20 23:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K May 14 06:12 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root    root    4.0K Jul 20 23:15 error
drwxrwxrwx.  1 vagrant vagrant  102 Jul 21 23:14 html
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root    root    4.0K Jul 20 23:18 icons

So I tried setting apache ownership to it,

   config.vm.synced_folder "./source", "/var/www/html", :owner=>"apache",:group=>"apache",:extra=>"dmode=777,fmode=777"

but that doesn't work too.

Apparently it has full read/write permissions and I have no clue why apache is complaining.

Answer 1

Figure out the user/group which runs httpd, make sure the user has execute permission on /var/www and its subfolders.

Also, in you apache site configuration files, make sure you have correct directives for /var/www, something like below

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

Disable SELinux in the guest, it's useless to a development env

Edit /etc/selinux/config

Change SELINUX to disabled

SELINUX=disabled

Reboot the vagrant box => vagrant reload

See if #1 with #2 helps.