Forbidden: You don't have permission to access / on this server - apache

Question

I keep having this access denied error. I'm using apache 2.2.15 on CentOs 6.4.
The server is running with user apache and group apache.
In home, I have a user staging. I added him to the apache group.
Permissions on the docs folder are:
drwxrwx--- 2 staging staging 4096 Oct 4 14:33 docs
I'm testing with an index.html file:
-rw-r--r-- 1 staging staging 13 Oct 4 14:28 index.html
SELinux is disabled. The address I'm using is staging.mysite.com
My httpd.conf looks like this:
<Directory "/home/*/docs">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
Options FollowSymLinks
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride All
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I also have a virtual host set to my staging address:
<VirtualHost SERVERIP:80>
ServerName staging.mysite.com
DocumentRoot /home/staging/docs
ServerAdmin staging#mysite.com
CustomLog /home/staging/logs/access_log combined
</VirtualHost>
If you need more info let me know but any idea why it's giving me this error?

Answer 1

Well, as you stated it, the docs folder is only readable by the staging user and the staging group. So the apache user may not read it.
One solution would be to add the apache user to the staging group.

Answer 2

I can fixed the same error:
To Modify at your nagios configuration the options parameter +Indexes and add DirectoryIndex index.php
Maybe show be:
<Directory "/home/*/docs">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
Options FollowSymLinks +Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride All
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
And, finally restart your apache service.
Check the permission /home/ can be +x and +r, like chmod +rx /home/.