Forbidden error in apache virtual host setup - apache

Question

Hello I have been looking through internet articles forums to solve my issue and so far it has been to no avail. I am trying to set up an Apache virtual host for my FuelPHP development on localhost but I keep getting slammed with the error 403 message. Here is my current setup.
#/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot "/home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP/fuelProject/public"
ServerName localhost.home
<Directory "/home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP/fuelProject/public" >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I have pointed my Docroot to the public folder inside my fuelProject. Also to make sure Apache had access to the server files, I set the permissions for all of the files recursively to read, write, and execute just to be a 100% safe. Any clues as to what else could be going wrong?
PS: I am running ubuntu raring (13.04)
PSS: And I am trying to visit localhost.home and localhost.home/index.php. I also get the following warnings upon restarting the server
* Restarting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Fri May 03 15:46:58 2013] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Fri May 03 15:46:59 2013] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

Answer 1

Here is the correct way of adding Vhost for fuelphp application or any other php application
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost.home
DocumentRoot /home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP/fuelProject/public
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
<Directory /home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP/fuelProject/public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And also the below line is not required I dont know why you have added
NameVirtualHost *:80
After doing all above add a host entry to your machine to do that
sudo vi /etc/hosts
add an entry of the virtual host
127.0.0.1 localhost.home
After doing all these things
restart Apache by running
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
And just load http://localhost.home in your browser you should be able to see your site up and running .
If you still get forbidden error .you need to give permissions to your whole application folder
follow run these commands to do so
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP
sudo chmod -R 775 /home/supercomputer/Desktop/PHP
At last add yourself to www-data group
sudo adduser yourUserName www-data

Answer 2

The configuration I posted were working. The problem was with permissions. I had set only my containing fuel project folder to permission 777 but for some reason apache wanted access to almost all the folders containing it. Weird I know but setting all the permissions to 777, it worked. Reading the darn apache log sure helped. If you are having a similar problem, I suggest find the apache log and ACTUALLY READ IT

Answer 3

Testeed on Ubuntu 14.04: I did everything above but I didn't work. I missed to allow access to the directory in my apache2.conf. This is needed if you don't use a standard directory like /var/www or /usr/share/.
<Directory /usr/local/vufind>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
This was mentioned on the4 default PHP site. It's worth reading it!