Question

I just installed Xampp on my Arch Linux system. What i want to do now:

My PHP working directory is located in my home-folder (at /home/luke/PHP). I want Apache to access those files two, so i followed the Xampp Installation guide on the Arch Linux Wiki and created an Alias for this Directory.
This is what my httpd.conf (the Alias part) looks like:

Alias /PHP /home/luke/PHP
<directory /home/luke/PHP>
    AllowOverride FileInfo Limit Options Indexes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</directory>

After that, i changed the permissions for the home/luke/PHP-folder to 777 (using chmod). I restarted Xampp and got a 403 when i tried to navigate into http://localhost/PHP

The Apache-Server runs under the http-User (which exists) and the http-Group. So, i added the http-User in my Group (the group luke from my user, using the chown-tool). I restarted the Server, same error.

Here is (a part from) the error_log-file:

[Sun Apr 24 18:05:37 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Keine Berechtigung: access to /PHP/ denied
[Sun Apr 24 18:10:30 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Keine Berechtigung: access to /PHP/ denied
[Sun Apr 24 18:10:30 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Keine Berechtigung: access to /PHP/ denied

So, the Alias I created should work, but what do I need to do to make my /home/luke/PHP-folder accessible to the Apache Server?

I also tried to create a Symlink in the htdocs-folder, but that didn’t work neither.

Answer 1

I fixed my issue by configuring the Alias like shown above, but setting the Apache’s user to my user (“luke”) and leaving the Group out:

# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
# It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for
# running httpd, as with most system services.
User luke
#Group http

After that I changed the owner of the htdocs– and the PHP-Directory to my user (luke) and restarted LAMPP.

Now everything works fine. Also thanks to Pascal MARTIN and hornetbzz!