[SOLVED] Changing Apache DocumentRoot

garyfritz · 03-30-2021, 03:52 PM

I want to move my Apache webserver directory. I've looked at literally dozens of websites that claimed to tell you how to do this, and basically they all just said "Oh that's easy, just change DocumentRoot and you're golden." Well I did, and I'm not.

I changed DocumentRoot.
I tried changing the <Directory> settings. (See conf file below)
I've restarted httpd and rebooted the system.
I set the SELinux type to httpd_sys_content_t on my DocumentRoot and on the index.html:

Code:

# semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/test(/.*)?"
# restorecon -R -v /test /test/index.html
# ll -dZ /test /test/index.html 
drwxr-xr-x. 2 apache apache unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 24 Mar 30 14:03 /test
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 22 Mar 30 14:03 /test/index.html

I took care of /etc/httpd/conf/welcome.conf so the "you haven't set up Apache yet" message doesn't display. But all I get is "403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access this resource."

What am I missing?

Code:

#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "/test"

#
# Relax access to content within /var/www.
#
<Directory "/test">
    AllowOverride None
    # Allow open access:
    Require all granted
</Directory>

dc.901 · 03-30-2021, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garyfritz

But all I get is "403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access this resource."

What is in Apache logs?

scasey · 03-30-2021, 05:42 PM

Did you restart httpd after making changes?

garyfritz · 03-30-2021, 06:14 PM

Yes I did (restart httpd).

Hm, @dc.901, you had the right idea. The error_log says there is no matching DirectoryIndex -- no index.html/whatever.

I loop-mounted the ISO image of a RHEL8.3 install DVD and I'm using it for a yum repository. I was supposed to also point the webserver at that directory, but I don't know how it's possible if it requires an index.html, since I can't create one in the ISO. (Well I probably COULD but that's not the right way to attack this.)

But that's not the only problem. I moved it off the ISO to a normal directory, /test. The error message says "Cannot serve directory /http_repo/," which was a link to the ISO. I thought I had removed all references to that dir! But with some digging I found an entry in conf.d/vhosts.conf. Not sure where that came from, since I didn't knowingly set it up. But once I fixed that, it finally worked.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I should have thought to look for log files...