Apache virtualhost issue

I'm actually using FreeBSD but that really shouldn't matter.

I'm trying to get subdomains to work. If I add this to my httpd.conf,
I get "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this
server." for domain.com and blah.domain.com... *but* subdirectories
all work. However, blah.domain.com subdirectories are still coming
from the main apache directory, not /usr/home/blah/public_html

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/usr/home/blah/public_html"
ServerName blah.domain.com
ErrorLog /usr/home/blah/apache_error.log
CustomLog /usr/home/blah/apache_access.log common
</VirtualHost>

Thoughts? Please?

On 2004-11-12, Jon C <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I get "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this
> server."

To be served by apache the "DocumentRoot" and all the parents
directories have to be world-executable and world-readable.
Check if /usr and /usr/home and /usr/home/blah are
rwxr-xr-x.
Also, do you have an index.html file in there, is that index.html
file world-readable?

Davide

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Davide Bianchi wrote:

> On 2004-11-12, Jon C <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I get "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this
>>server."
>
>
> To be served by apache the "DocumentRoot" and all the parents
> directories have to be world-executable and world-readable.
> Check if /usr and /usr/home and /usr/home/blah are
> rwxr-xr-x.
> Also, do you have an index.html file in there, is that index.html
> file world-readable?
>
> Davide
>

Yes to both.

In comp.os.linux.networking Jon C <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> I'm actually using FreeBSD but that really shouldn't matter.

> I'm trying to get subdomains to work. If I add this to my httpd.conf,
> I get "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this
> server." for domain.com and blah.domain.com... *but* subdirectories
> all work. However, blah.domain.com subdirectories are still coming
> from the main apache directory, not /usr/home/blah/public_html

> <VirtualHost *>
> DocumentRoot "/usr/home/blah/public_html"
> ServerName blah.domain.com
> ErrorLog /usr/home/blah/apache_error.log
> CustomLog /usr/home/blah/apache_access.log common
> </VirtualHost>

> Thoughts? Please?

You probably need something like this in the <Directory ...>
directive(s) for your VirtualHost:

Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all

You seem to lack any <Directory ...> directive for your
VirtualHost completely, no wonder access is denied, if there's
nothing apache can deliver.

I'd suggest checking the apache docs and getting a good book if
you are serious about apache

Good luck

BTW
Remains unclear what this has to do with Linux/networking?

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Michael Heiming wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.networking Jon C <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
>>I'm actually using FreeBSD but that really shouldn't matter.
>
>
>>I'm trying to get subdomains to work. If I add this to my httpd.conf,
>>I get "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this
>>server." for domain.com and blah.domain.com... *but* subdirectories
>>all work. However, blah.domain.com subdirectories are still coming
>>from the main apache directory, not /usr/home/blah/public_html
>
>
>><VirtualHost *>
>> DocumentRoot "/usr/home/blah/public_html"
>> ServerName blah.domain.com
>> ErrorLog /usr/home/blah/apache_error.log
>> CustomLog /usr/home/blah/apache_access.log common
>></VirtualHost>
>
>
>>Thoughts? Please?
>
>
> You probably need something like this in the <Directory ...>
> directive(s) for your VirtualHost:
>
> Order Allow,Deny
> Allow from all
>
> You seem to lack any <Directory ...> directive for your
> VirtualHost completely, no wonder access is denied, if there's
> nothing apache can deliver.
>
> I'd suggest checking the apache docs and getting a good book if
> you are serious about apache
>
> Good luck
>
> BTW
> Remains unclear what this has to do with Linux/networking?
>

I have a <directory> section for /usr/home/*/public_html which should
take care of that, no? Besides, I get access denied for the root page
as well as the virtualhost. The virtualhost doesn'te ven seem to work
at all as blah.domain.com/test points to my test/ in the root directory,
not in /usr/home/blah/public_html/

On 2004-11-12, Jon C <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Yes to both.

Ok, another thing: do you have a NameVirtualHost * in your
config?
Davide

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Davide Bianchi wrote:

> On 2004-11-12, Jon C <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Yes to both.
>
>
> Ok, another thing: do you have a NameVirtualHost * in your
> config?
> Davide
>

Yes.

When I change the directory to /usr/local/data2, the entire website
(domain.com gets served up from /usr/local/data2.

This is what I have right now:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/data2
ServerName data2.domain.com
</VirtualHost>

Requests to domain.com get served from data2, despite the fact that I have:

ServerName domain.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/data

In the beginning of httpd.conf


What am I missing?

Jon C wrote:

> I'm actually using FreeBSD but that really shouldn't matter.
>
> I'm trying to get subdomains to work. If I add this to my httpd.conf,
> I get "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this
> server." for domain.com and blah.domain.com... *but* subdirectories
> all work. However, blah.domain.com subdirectories are still coming
> from the main apache directory, not /usr/home/blah/public_html
>
> <VirtualHost *>
> DocumentRoot "/usr/home/blah/public_html"
> ServerName blah.domain.com
> ErrorLog /usr/home/blah/apache_error.log
> CustomLog /usr/home/blah/apache_access.log common
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Thoughts? Please?

I actually got it to work by adding this:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/data
</VirtualHost>

Go figure.

Thanks for the help. Anyone want to try to explain why adding that made
http://domain.com work properly? Before I added that http://domain.com
was served by the DocumentRoot specified in the quoted VirtualHost.

Jon