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

[EpicKris]

This is what I'm attempting to achieve:
example1.com > site1
example2.com > site 2

I've created the sites as virtual hosts:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/example1

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me@example1.com
ServerName example1.com
ServerAlias example1.com
DocumentRoot /home/me/Sites/example1/www
<Directory /home/kristian/Sites/example1/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The www folder has permissions 755, owner me and group me.
The index.html file has permissions 644, owner me and group me.

Visiting the sites shows:
http://example1.com/ & http://example1.com/index.html

Forbidden

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

Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at pluginstudios.co.uk Port 80

Without the virtual hosts the setup works fine.

Any suggestions please?

[EpicKris]

Could any help? I've read a lot about this topic, but not sure what to do exactly…

[CharlesA]

Are the user's home directories encrypted?

[EpicKris]

Are the user's home directories encrypted?

Yes! Thank you! How do I stop that?

[CharlesA]

You don't. You need to put the sites somewhere else. Normally they'd be in /var/www/somefolder

[EpicKris]

You don't. You need to put the sites somewhere else. Normally they'd be in /var/www/somefolder

It wont allow me to create any files or folders in the /var/www directory.

[CharlesA]

You need to have root permission to create files and folders there.

[EpicKris]

You need to have root permission to create files and folders there.

Okay, thank you for the help, I'm certain this will solve my problem completely.

[Vegan]

when you need root provileges, use the

sudo mkdir xxx

then your making a root owned folder

sudo chmod 777 xxx

[EpicKris]

Unfortunately I restarted my server and I need to type a password before services start but don't have access to the machine physically right now.