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[djtriptoy]

My primary domain functions,
http://www.triptoy.net

A hosted domain for a friend works fine,
http://www.slivovitzmusic.com

and now I tried adding a domain for a family member...
http://www.areawiderepair.com

Which does not work, it appears apache is trying to point to "/" instead of the /home/areawiderepair.com/public_html folder.



here is my httpd.conf
Code:
NameVirtualHost 67.18.186.137:80

 <VirtualHost 67.18.186.137:80>
 ServerName triptoy.net
 ServerAlias www.triptoy.net
 DocumentRoot "/var/www"
 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
 </VirtualHost>

 <VirtualHost 67.18.186.137:80>
 ServerName slivovitzmusic.com
 ServerAlias www.slivovitzmusic.com
 DocumentRoot "/home/slivovitzmusic.com/public_html"
 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/slivovitzmusic.com/cgi-bin/
 </VirtualHost>

 <VirtualHost 67.18.186.137:80>
 ServerName areawiderepair.com
 ServerAlias www.areawiderepair.com
 DocumentRoot "/home/areawiderepair.com/public_html"
 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/areawiderepair.com/cgi-bin/
 </VirtualHost>


Anyone else see what the problem is?

[kangaby]

Have you re-loaded Apache?

[djtriptoy]

Quote: Have you re-loaded Apache?

Yes, and had to reboot for another reason... Neither worked.

[nabber00]

Looks like its working to me?

[djtriptoy]

It looks fine to me as well, but if you go to http://www.areawiderepair.com/ it tells me forbidden, you do not have access to "/"

The other two work fine.

I have an index.html file in that directory so this shouldnt be the case...

[SteveG]

Well, problem one is that www.areawiderepair.com points to yahoo servers. Did you forget to update DNS? Or has it just not propagated yet?

As for the error you're seeing, it looks a lot like a permissions or ownership problem on the directory or index file.

[djtriptoy]

propagation. what I see is:

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

----------------------------------------

Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 Server at areawiderepair.com Port 80



Yep.. the problem was the permission! thanks

[SteveG]

You've still got DNS problems., as of 1300 CST Feb 9. I think you need to update the registration to point to your new nameserver(s).

[djtriptoy]

This is still fudged. The DNS resolvers have been fixed but it still claims "/" is inaccessible. I don't know what happened, one moment I could see the page I created on the server and all of a sudden its back to forbidden. I didn't change anything to cause it to stop working....

Anyone have any ideas?

[djtriptoy]

Doh! Nevermind....

Somehow the permissions were messed up, again? Anyone have a recommendation on the proper permissions to have on public_html and the files within?

[irgeek]

Code: Directories: 0755 = drwxr-xr-x
Files:       0644 = -rw-r--r--
CGIs:        0755 = -rwxr-xr-x
I've see strange problems where file permissions were changing for no apparent reason. It was because of the [FTP|SFTP] client software used to transfer files to the server. If you're seeing that, get a better client.

[blogpuzzles]

I use ISPConfig (http://www.ispconfig.org) to manage lots of websites with email (including antivirus and antispam), ftp, and other functionality. It's a free product and eases the administrative burden of server management.