Apache update broke my web server

Hi everyone,

I recently did an apache2 update (now running 2.2.22) and my web-server stopped being accessible. I can still access phpmyadmin, and my mumble-django setup - but my acutal website setup in my sites-available is no longer available. All I get is a "Forbidden, You don't have permission to access / on this server". It was working 100% before the update, and I made no permission changes to the files in my public_html directory. I tried 'chmod -R 755 public_html' but that did no good. Any advice on how to fix this? I've checked the apache log files and there is nothing out of the ordinary so I suspect is has to do with the update.

Upon further inspection I'm getting this error for the website in question:

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[Sat Jun 02 00:39:02 2012] [error] [client 180.76.5.187] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied

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I checked all of the permissions and they look ok:

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bob@Newton:~$ namei 1TBRaid/Web/trtguild.net/public_html/index.php -m
f: 1TBRaid/Web/trtguild.net/public_html/index.php
drwxr-xr-x 1TBRaid
drwxr-xr-x Web
drwxr-xr-x trtguild.net
drwxr-xr-x public_html
-rwxr-xr-x index.php
bob@Newton:~$

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Any idea what may be going on? Again everything was working 100% before the update =(

I can get the webserver to work in /var/www, so does that mean that the owner of my site files HAS to be root as is the case for /var/www? Is this a recent change? And how can I link to my files without having to change the owner of all of the parent folders to root?

I just tried to make a new site in my home directory via this link, but I encounter the same permission error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please post the vhost file in question.

Look for the directory directives. Possibly the directory is restricted.

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    <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/site1/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

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Particularly the "allow from all" and "order allow,deny" for the directory containing the index.html.

Just a little late. what volkswagner said.

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Originally Posted by volkswagner

Please post the vhost file in question.

Look for the directory directives. Possibly the directory is restricted.

Code:

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    <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/site1/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

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Particularly the "allow from all" and "order allow,deny" for the directory containing the index.html.

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Thanks for the replies guys. As a test I simply copied the default website and only changed the directories and port (my ISP blocks 80). My site file looks as follows:

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<VirtualHost *:81>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /home/bob/webtemp
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/bob/webtemp/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

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which inside of that directory is a simple index.html file. It's the only site enabled and I still get a permission error. Any other ideas?

What are the permissions on /home/bob? They must be at least 711 so that the Apache user, www-data, can see your site. /home/bob/webtemp needs either 755 permissions, or 750 permissions if it belongs to a group with the www-data user as one of its members. The first is easier to administer.

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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

What are the permissions on /home/bob? They must be at least 711 so that the Apache user, www-data, can see your site. /home/bob/webtemp needs either 755 permissions, or 750 permissions if it belongs to a group with the www-data user as one of its members. The first is easier to administer.

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The thing is, I didn't change any permissions =( I checked those directories and they are good. I think im going to try and reinstall apache and if that doesn't work just start from scratch. Something weird is going on.