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Hello I have been looking through internet articles forums to solve my issue and so far it has been to no avail. I am trying to set up an Apache virtual host for my FuelPHP development on localhost but I keep getting slammed with the error 403 message. Here is my current setup.

#/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
    DocumentRoot "/home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP/fuelProject/public"
    ServerName   localhost.home
    <Directory "/home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP/fuelProject/public" >
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I have pointed my Docroot to the public folder inside my fuelProject. Also to make sure Apache had access to the server files, I set the permissions for all of the files recursively to read, write, and execute just to be a 100% safe. Any clues as to what else could be going wrong?

PS: I am running ubuntu raring (13.04)

PSS: And I am trying to visit localhost.home and localhost.home/index.php. I also get the following warnings upon restarting the server

* Restarting web server apache2                                                apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Fri May 03 15:46:58 2013] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
 ... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Fri May 03 15:46:59 2013] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
user1000232
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  • Please Post your Apache Logs so that we could help properly , I some how guessed what might be the problem so you post back the issue by verifying it – Aravind.HU May 05 '13 at 16:26
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    Off topic. Try serverfault.com. – user207421 May 05 '13 at 23:24
  • @user1000232 is your problem solved , If so please accept the answer you know the SO rules that you have to accept some answer . if not please post with your issue . – Aravind.HU May 12 '13 at 17:28

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Here is the correct way of adding Vhost for fuelphp application or any other php application 

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost.home
    DocumentRoot /home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP/fuelProject/public
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    <Directory /home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP/fuelProject/public>
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And also the below line is not required I dont know why you have added 

NameVirtualHost *:80

After doing all above add a host entry to your machine to do that 

sudo vi /etc/hosts

add an entry of the virtual host 

127.0.0.1  localhost.home

After doing all these things

restart Apache by running 

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And just load http://localhost.home in your browser you should be able to see your site up and running .

If you still get forbidden error .you need to give permissions to your whole application folder

follow run these commands to do so 

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP

sudo chmod -R 775 /home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP

At last add yourself to www-data group 

sudo adduser yourUserName www-data
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  • After changing my DocumentRoot from the default `/var/www` to something custom and adding an appropriate Directory rule in my Apache configuration file, I was getting a forbidden error on localhost. Adding the entry you suggested to `/etc/hosts` and restarting Apache fixed it for me. – Dennis Jan 07 '14 at 14:39
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The configuration I posted were working. The problem was with permissions. I had set only my containing fuel project folder to permission 777 but for some reason apache wanted access to almost all the folders containing it. Weird I know but setting all the permissions to 777, it worked. Reading the darn apache log sure helped. If you are having a similar problem, I suggest find the apache log and ACTUALLY READ IT

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Testeed on Ubuntu 14.04: I did everything above but I didn't work. I missed to allow access to the directory in my apache2.conf. This is needed if you don't use a standard directory like /var/www or /usr/share/. 

<Directory /usr/local/vufind>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All 
    Require all granted
</Directory>

This was mentioned on the4 default PHP site. It's worth reading it!

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