After adding a VirtualHost section to
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
on an Apache web server, when I tried accessing the site I saw the message
below:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
I'd encountered the problem in the past when there was a problem with
permissions on the user's home directory. I didn't see any log files for the
site in the directory under the user account, either, where the
ErrorLog and CustomLog directives in the
VirtualHost section for the website should have placed them. I checked the
access for the user's home directory and found that the only access to that
directory was read, write, and execute access for the user's account.
# ls -ld /home/jim drwx------ 5 jim jim 4096 Jan 22 21:44 /home/jim
When I added "search" access for the group and all users to the user's home directory from the root account, I was able to access the website from a browser.
# chmod ga+x /home/joe
I.e., the cause of the problem had been the same as the last time I encountered the error message.
