Hello, just starting out with my linux RH box with Apache.
But I`m encountering this problem that I don`t understand, and would like to fix quite quick, so please let me have some suggestions. It is really an Apache problem though (I think).
I get this when I type in the IP address of a IP based virtual host (my only one):

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


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Apache/1.3.12 Server at www.ballskills.com Port 80


What`s the most common things newbies might have overlooked when they encounter this HTTP header?

Is there a specific module that I must have installed for virtual hosts to work?

I use this:
<Directory "/home">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

and the pages are on i.e /home/haakon/public_html
thanks

Sounds like a permissions issue, files and dirs for the web server should be owned by the same user the server is running as.

check permissions using: ls -l
change permissions using: chown USER:GROUP file
chown -R USER:GROUP DIR
with -R all dirs/files in this directory will be modified as well.

my USER is "haakon" and group is "haakon", how can I specify the user that the server (you mean virtual server, right?) should be running as?
thanks

the user and group apache or whatever web server will run as is specified in the conf file (httpd.conf). example if you are using redhat 7.1 you will find it in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, usually it's there, or /etc/httpd/httpd.conf... just figure out what's the user it's running as and do: chown -R USER:GROUP DIR where DIR is the web server files directory.... in redhat 7 and above the user and group are "apache" and sometimes it's "nobody"... goodluck...

Thanks h1kz0r, it now works because I nobody`ed the whole /home directory. But this causes the users to be erased (I should probably just have done it on the public_html files), but no problem now as I`m just testing out. But is it possible to leave users as is in the /home dir and specify more users in httpd.conf? I`m looking around at another hosting server and they have the specific users specified on all their accounts, how do they do that?
Thanks again!

www.linux.org and read the apache howto as well as the virtual hosts one.