Dynamic vhost giving 403 forbidden on OSX Apache

apache-2.2mac-osxvirtualhost

I have followed this guide and am trying to create dynamic vhosts on OSX by allowing foo.dev to direct to the web folder /foo. My difference being that I am using ~/Sites as my web folder instead of the Mac HD as in the guide. It uses dnsmasq which I believe is installed and working correctly.

So in my ~/Sites folder I have:

home
sites
|-foo
|-bar

My httpd-vhosts.conf looks like this:

<Virtualhost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Users/harryg/Sites/home"
ServerName home.dev
UseCanonicalName Off
ErrorLog "logs/home/error.log"
<Directory "/Users/harryg/Sites/home">
    #Options FollowSymLinks
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Allow from all
</Directory>
</Virtualhost>

<Virtualhost *:80>
VirtualDocumentRoot "/Users/harryg/Sites/sites/%1"
<Directory "/Users/harryg/Sites/sites/%1">
    Options FollowSymLinks
    #Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Allow from all
</Directory>
ServerName sites.dev
ServerAlias *.dev
UseCanonicalName Off
</Virtualhost>

The first vhost works fine and going to home.dev leads to the example index.php file I have in the root of that vhost.

The 2nd vhost just gives a 403 Forbidden error for anything.dev, whether or not a folder exists for the subdomain of .dev.

Any ideas?

Edit:

Latest Log entries

Apache Error Log:

[Wed Dec 18 00:45:37 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Users/harryg/Sites/home/favicon.ico
[Wed Dec 18 00:45:45 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /Users/harryg/Sites/sites/test/, referer: http://home.dev/
[Wed Dec 18 00:45:45 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server

Server now works (was a problem with error log directory in config file). But still can't access dynamic vhosts.

Best Answer

What's the content of your 2nd site?

There are two possible reasons:

  1. If a directory has no index document (index.php, index.html, default.html, etc) and directory listing is not allowed, Apache will display a 403 error page.

  2. I notice that you didn't enable ExecCGI in sites.dev . Could you try enable it?

Updated: Percent sign in path (/Users/harryg/Sites/sites/%1) is for mod_vhost_alias, but not Apache's <Directory> rules. Modify this:

<Directory "/Users/harryg/Sites/sites/%1">

To this:

<Directory "/Users/harryg/Sites/sites">

Does it work?

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