403 Forbiden on Apache (CentOS) Server
- by pouya
These are my VM setup:
HOST: windows 7 ultimate 32bit
GUEST: CentOs 6.3 i386
Virtualization soft: Oracle virtualBox 4.1.22
Networking: NAT -> (PORT FORWARD: HOST:8080 => GUEST:80)
Shared Folder: centos
all the project files goes into shared folder and for each project file a virtualhost conf file is created in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ like /etc/httpd/conf.d/$domain
I wasn't able to see anything in my browser before disabling both windows firewall and iptables in centos after that if i type for example: http://www.$domain:8080/ all i see is:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at www.$domain.com Port 8080
A sample Virtual Host conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
#General
DocumentRoot /media/sf_centos/path/to/public_html
ServerAdmin webmaster@$domain
ServerName www.$domain
ServerAlias $domain *.$domain
#Logging
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-access.log combined
#mod rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/$domain-rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 0
</VirtualHost>
centos shared folder is availabe to guest at /media/sf_centos
These are file permissons for sf_centos:
drwxrwx--- root vboxsf
vboxsf group includes: apache and root
So these are my questions:
1- How to solve Forbidden Problem?
2- How to setup both host and guest firewalls?
3- How can i improve this developement environment to simulate production environment as much as possible specially security improvements?
