Apache does not read files in /var/www/html. Selinux disabled

prodpedia · #1 24th July 2009, 02:53 AM

I successfully installed LAMP and Drupal. I was able to view the Drupal installation and testfile.html index.phpcreated within /var/www/html
Next I copied a tar from my home director (that was a copy of a Drupal website) to /var/www/html and untarred it.
That seemed to destroy everything. Not only can I not access the newly untarred file, I cannot access
index.php and any otehr file.
I learnt that selinux may be a problem so disabled it by changing /sbin/selinux/config and setting a line as disabled. Then I rebooted and ensured that selinux was disabled.
Yet I am unable to view the apache files. I have a brand new installation of F11 and have not changed httpd.conf

What should I do? My inability to make this work is hitting my project billing directly.

prodpedia · #2 24th July 2009, 02:55 AM

THis is the output from /var/www/html
drwxr-xr-x. root root unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 drupal
-rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 index.php
drwxr-xr-x root root ? junk
-rw-r--r-- root root ? testfile

I also tried restorecon * without success. However ,selinux is disabled
/usr/sbin/sestatus
SELinux status: disabled

so it should not be an issue

tquang · #3 24th July 2009, 03:16 AM

Check your httpd.conf

prodpedia · #4 24th July 2009, 03:21 AM

I also changed documentRoot in in httpd.conf to point to a newly created directory html-new in /var/www/
Same error 403 forbidden
Is there a way to cleanup and start all over again. I am up against a deadline and don't have time to lock horns with selinux

prodpedia · #5 24th July 2009, 03:22 AM

Thanks for the response. My httpd.conf never changed execpt now when I changed the document root. What should I check for

neogranas · #6 24th July 2009, 03:57 AM

What do your logs say (/var/log/httpd/error_log) when you visit that site?

You can open a terminal and as root (or sudo) type this:

Code:

tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log

Hit enter a few times to give you some white space so it's easier to read, then hit the site in a web browser and go back to your logs and see what they say. That's the best way to find what is causing the issue.

prodpedia · #7 24th July 2009, 06:18 AM

For the files that within /var/www/html that were denied, this is the log

[Thu Jul 23 18:43:30 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied
[Thu Jul 23 18:56:25 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied
[Thu Jul 23 18:56:25 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied
[Thu Jul 23 18:56:25 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html.var denied
[Thu Jul 23 18:58:00 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied
[Thu Jul 23 18:58:00 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied
[Thu Jul 23 18:58:00 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html.var

For access to a new directory /var/www/html_new that was created as a root
the log is
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[Thu Jul 23 19:20:19 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu Jul 23 19:20:19 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Thu Jul 23 19:20:19 2009] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Thu Jul 23 19:20:19 2009] [notice] mod_python: using mutex_directory /tmp
[Thu Jul 23 19:20:19 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.9 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8k-fips mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jul 23 19:20:21 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html-new/

tquang · #8 24th July 2009, 07:13 AM

Below example about config you httpd.conf, this is mine

Code:

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80>
        ServerName quangrc.co.cc
        ServerAlias *.quangrc.co.cc
        ServerAdmin admin@quangrc.co.cc
        DocumentRoot /var/www/quangrc.co.cc/
        ErrorLog /var/www/quangrc.co.cc/logs/error
        CustomLog /var/www/quangrc.co.cc/logs/custom common
                <Directory /var/www/quangrc.co.cc/>
                        DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
                        AllowOverride All
                        Allow from all
                        Order deny,allow
                        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
                </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

tquang · #9 24th July 2009, 07:13 AM

Below example about config you httpd.conf, this is mine

Code:

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80>
        ServerName quangrc.co.cc
        ServerAlias *.quangrc.co.cc
        ServerAdmin admin@quangrc.co.cc
        DocumentRoot /var/www/quangrc.co.cc/
        ErrorLog /var/www/quangrc.co.cc/logs/error
        CustomLog /var/www/quangrc.co.cc/logs/custom common
                <Directory /var/www/quangrc.co.cc/>
                        DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
                        AllowOverride All
                        Allow from all
                        Order deny,allow
                        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
                </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

neogranas · #10 24th July 2009, 07:31 AM

Directory Index Forbidden means that it got the directory, but didn't find a file listed as one that is looked for as an index file. Try putting an html page or PHP page there named index.(html or php) and see if that works. Seeing as permission is denied to the others, check the folder permissions on html in /var/www

I personally set mine to be a public_html folder in my user's home, which makes it much easier for me to keep track of things and not have files that are accessible by apache as root owned.