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Error setting up multiple vhosts with Apache2 on Mint 15

I just installed Apache2 on mint 15. I am able to see the localhost and so decided to add virtual hosts for my projects.

  1. I have added the hostnames at /etc/hosts

    127.0.0.1 eclipse

  2. I also added vhost details at /etc/apache2/site-avaliable:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@eclipse
ServerName eclipse
ServerAlias www.eclipse

# Indexes+Document Root
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
DocumentRoot /home/cygnus/Dropbox/Workspace_Eclipse

#logfiles
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/eclipse-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/eclipse-access.log combined

<Directory /home/cygnus/Dropbox/Workspace_Eclipse>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

</VirtualHost>

  3. I activated the vhost using:

    sudo a2ensite example.com

  4. Also added following to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

    ServerName localhost
ServerName eclipse

After all the work I checked:

    http://localhost - works OK.
    http://eclipse - gives 403 error.

Do I need to do anything more to add vhost in linux? Did I miss or mess up some step? Any help is appreciated - Thanks in advance :)

Update: I tried changing the DocumentRoot to "/var/www/test/" - this works but I need it to work at home level.

I used chown and chgrp to set owner and group to both www-data and root - neither worked.

Solution

  • Found my answer here

    All I was missing was: chmod -R 755 /home/cygnus/Dropbox/*