Forbidden access on Apache in Mac Lion

Question

I'm trying to configure Apache to work with Symfony in my Macbook Pro. I Have installed Lion OSX.

1. I uncommented the line Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf on /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.
2. I configured Apache by editing the /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. and adding the following:

::

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *.80>
  ServerName localhost
  DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "/Users/luiscberrocal/Documents/dev/lion_test/web"
  ServerName lion.localhost
<Directory "/Users/luiscberrocal/Documents/dev/lion_test/web">
   Options Indexes FollowSymlinks
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

3. Added the following to /private/etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 lion.localhost

Now when I access http://localhost/test.php I get the following message

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /test.php on this server.

Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.6 with Suhosin-Patch Server at localhost Port 80

I already tried:

chmod 777 test.php

chmod +x test.php 

I get the same message if I try to access http://lion.localhost/

I opened the /var/log/apache2/error_log and this is what I found relevant:

[Sat Dec 31 09:37:49 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.6 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Dec 31 09:37:53 2011] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to /test.php denied
[Sat Dec 31 09:37:55 2011] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to /test.php denied
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:13 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:13 2011] [error] (EAI 8)nodename nor servname provided, or not known: Could not resolve host name *.80 -- ignoring! httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Luis-Berrocals-MacBook-Pro.local for ServerName
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:14 2011] [warn] mod_bonjour: Cannot stat template index file '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Sites/index.html'.
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:14 2011] [warn] mod_bonjour: Cannot stat template index file '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Sites/index.html'.
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:14 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:14 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:14 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.6 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:18 2011] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to /test.php denied
[Sat Dec 31 09:38:19 2011] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: access to /test.php denied
[Sat Dec 31 10:18:09 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /test.php denied
[Sat Dec 31 10:18:15 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

Put

<Directory "your/custom/directory">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

at the end of /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

take a look at line 180 to 225 to see what's going on.

Answer 2

I couldn't work out it to work with port 80. What finally worked for me was using this on my /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080

Listen 127.0.0.1:8080

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080>
        DocumentRoot "/Users/luiscberrocal/NetBeansProjects/mroute_rest_service/web"
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        <Directory "/Users/luiscberrocal/NetBeansProjects/mroute_rest_service/web">
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from All
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then run sudo chmod 777 cache and sudo chmod 777 logs/

Answer 3

Looks like your Apache config file is not written correctly.

I would take the directory stuff and move it above the VirtualHost, also you cannot access the second virtual host you created because your trying to access it with the wrong hostname. You would need to use http://lion.localhost instead of localhost.

I would also just remove the first virtual host setting and than change the lion.localhost to localhost for simplicity.

Hope that helps,

Nick

<Directory "/Users/luiscberrocal/Documents/dev/lion_test/web">
   Options Indexes FollowSymlinks
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot "/Users/luiscberrocal/Documents/dev/lion_test/web"
   ServerName lion.localhost
</VirtualHost>