newbie httpd.conf alias issue

[Trouts]

Hello,

 

I have 2 apparently similar directories working with alias, one works, other doesn't....

 

** on httpd.conf

 

NameVirtualHost *:80

NameVirtualHost host_ip:80

#NameVirtualHost *

 

<VirtualHost host_ip:80>

ServerName mydomain.com

DocumentRoot /var/www/html

ServerAdmin mymail@gmail.com

Alias /gestix /home/gnet

Alias /gestix2 /home/gnet2

</VirtualHost>

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName mydomain.com

DocumentRoot /var/www/html

ServerAdmin mymail@gmail.com

Alias /gestix /home/gnet/html

Alias /gestix2 /home/gnet2

</VirtualHost>

 

No other references to these directories/paths

No external includes for httpd.conf

 

** ls -lisa for both dirs

 

[root@... ]# ls -lisa /home/gnet

total 120

18366466 8 drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 17 06:32 .

18366465 8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 29 05:53 ..

18366468 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 13:33 bin

18366471 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 13:41 cgi-bin

18366478 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 13:34 data

18366467 12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6148 Jun 16 13:33 .DS_Store

18366504 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 13:35 fonts

18366532 8 drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 16 13:36 html

18366599 8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 16 13:37 images

18366713 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 13:38 includes

18366842 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 16 13:58 index.html

18366815 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Jun 16 13:38 install.sh

18366816 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 13:38 lang

18366826 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:15 lib

18366837 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:17 temp

 

 

[root@... gestix]# ls -lisa /home/gnet2

total 20

18366843 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 05:56 .

18366465 8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 29 05:53 ..

3637252 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 29 06:08 index.html

 

** other info

 

both the index.html files are copies.

 

mydomain.com/gestix2/index.html works as expected, mydomain.com/gestix/index.html doesn't (403 Forbidden).

content on /home/gnet is an installed application.

 

relevant content on /etc/httpd/logs/error_log

Fri Aug 29 06:37:20 2008] [error] [client my_ip] (13)Permission denied: access to /gestix/index.html denied

 

Is there any permissions setting i am missing?

 

Thank you.

[steviewdr]

Try removing the following as its not needed:

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName mydomain.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

    ServerAdmin mymail@gmail.com

        Alias /gestix /home/gnet/html

        Alias /gestix2 /home/gnet2

</VirtualHost>

 

 

It could be "Alias /gestix /home/gnet/html" which ic confusing things.

 

-steve

[Trouts]

i've changed it and test  bit more thoroughly and found out this:

 

these files are simple empty copies:

/home/gnet/index.html

/home/gnet/public_html/index.html

 

I've "chmod -R 755 /home/gtest" just to be sure.

 

i took the problem to the simplest case and found out "Alias /gtest/ /home/gtest/" works fine, but if i change it to  "Alias /gtest/ /home/gtest/public_html/" it gives forbidden;

 

if i use the first Alias "Alias /gtest/ /home/gtest/" i can't access mydomain.com/public_html/index.html.

Apparently all subfolders under /home/user/ are not acessible, even through aliases, there are no relevant Directory clauses and i have no idea how.

Any ideas?

 

relevant information in httpd.conf

 

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

 

<Directory />

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride All

</Directory>

 

<Directory "/var/www/html">

    Options All

    AllowOverride None

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>

 

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>

    UserDir disable

    #UserDir public_html

</IfModule>

 

DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.shtml index.xhtml index.wml index.perl index.pl index.plx index.ppl index.cgi index.jsp index.js index.jp index.php4 index.php3 index.php index.phtml default.htm default.html home.htm index.php5 Default.html Default.htm home.html

 

AccessFileName .htaccess

 

<Files ~ "^\.ht">

    Order allow,deny

    Deny from all

</Files>

 

NameVirtualHost my_ip:80

 

<VirtualHost my_ip:80>

    ServerName mydomain.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

    ServerAdmin mymail@gmail.com

Alias /gtest/ /home/gtest/ #/home/gtest/public_html/ does not work here

    #i''ve tried setting a directory clause here to remove forbidden... doesnt work

    #<Directory "/home/gtest/public_html/">

    #    Options All

    #    AllowOverride None

    #    Order allow,deny

    #    Allow from all

    #</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

[Trouts]

For the record, this was a SELinux configuration problem in Red Hat Enterprise 4.

 

I had to give httpd access to the folder using $chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/gnet