I have created a virtualHost setup according to this website:
https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/302/how-to-setup-a-virtual-host-locally-with-xampp-in-ubuntu
This part of the setup apparently works. However, I want to have the project folder in another location than htdocs so that the work gets backed up automatically to the cloud with my other documents.
The VirtualHost file looks like this:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
DocumentRoot "/home/dave/Dropbox/Documents/Projects/MyApp"
ServerName lcover.local
DirectoryIndex index.html
<Directory "/home/dave/Dropbox/Documents/Projects/MyApp">
Options All
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog "logs/lcover.local-error_log"
CustomLog "logs/lcover.local-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>
When I go to http://lcover.local, I get the 403 error.
I am pretty sure that this is an owner / permissions problem and I have tried several combinations but cannot get it to work.
How should I set the permissions for the directory & files?
Best Answer
In order to have readable access to the files the user (any user) must have also read-execute permissions to the whole path of parent directories. The typical/default permissions of the user's home directories and the files inside are:
drwxr-xr-x
(or755
in octal) for the directories and-rw-r--r--
(or644
) for the files.That means all
other
users (the third trinity, or the third bit in octal) have readable access to the home directory (and the regular files inside) of each user.Within these circumstances, let's assume the Apache's user, which is not owner of the discussed items, but is a member of the
other
users (of course), can't read files from the directory~/Dropbox/Documents/Projects/MyApp
and we want to change that - the steps are: