Apache 403 Permission Denied

Question

I am trying to access a website which I am running with Apache. The issue is that that I get a 403 Error and only land on the Permission Denied error page. The backend etc. itself is using Django.

What I get from the error log:

(13)Permission denied: access to /index/ denied

I also edited the default apache conf to this:

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot /var/www

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerM$
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, $
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/acess.log combined

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

WSGIDaemonProcess djangoapps python-path=/home/djangoa$
WSGIProcessGroup djangoapps
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/djangoapps/plugit/wsgi.py

<Directory /home/djangoapps/plugit>
        <Files wsgi.py>
                Require all granted
        </Files>
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

The loaded (I hope) wsgi.py file doesn't include more then the default content yet. I also set www-data:www-data on everything in the project..

Answer 1

Which OS are you using?? Are you getting root access to your server?? If yes, check if SELinux is disabled or not. If not, then disable it by running setenforce 0 on your server's terminal to disable it.

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Q. What is SELinux?

A. Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module (kind of a system firewall) similar to AppArmour.