I have installed apache2, php and mysql server to my ubuntu 14.04 and was tested and everything is working as expected.
I have application created using codeigniter & was past developed on mac osx, so I create the following in order to run it on my ubuntu:
create new site configuration file inside sites-available named payroll-v1.conf like below:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName payroll.v1
DocumentRoot /home/ahmed-saber/workspace/payroll-v1/
<Directory /home/ahmed-saber/workspace/payroll-v1/>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
adding the line below to etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 payroll.v1
although my application not working and always output 403 forbidden even if i trying to access any static html page for test
Best Answer
The 403 error means that your pages are inaccessible for Apache.
Setting
chmod -R 755
as you did, made it accessible for everybody on your system - every user, program, daemon etc. Furthermore, you have made all files executable this way (see this or this for mor info on permissions and executables on Linux).More secure, yet simple solution, will be adding yourself to Apache's group (in Ubuntu its
www-data
) and then changing your Apache workspace to this group:For more secure approach you could use Access Control List, which might be a little more complicated.
In situations like this, you can always check Apache's error log (
/var/log/apache2/error.log
). If you are developing web pages you can keep one terminal window opened with "live view" of logs (error.log
oraccess.log
or whatever), like this: