Question

I seting up LAMP on my ubuntu box. I have only changed the sites-available-default/default

 <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /home/user/Dropbox/www/
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /home/user/Dropbox/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 +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

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

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

When I connect to my localhost I get a file in return. A PHTML with the index.php code.

When I connect to connect to http://192.168.1.133 I get a Forbidden error..

I assume it has something to do with permission and security, but not how to fix it.

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and it was because of a missing php module for apache.

$ dpkg -l | grep apache
ii  apache2                               2.2.17-1ubuntu1                            Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork                   2.2.17-1ubuntu1                            Apache HTTP Server - traditional non-threaded model
ii  apache2-suexec                        2.2.17-1ubuntu1                            Standard suexec program for Apache 2 mod_suexec
ii  apache2-threaded-dev                  2.2.17-1ubuntu1                            Apache development headers - threaded MPM
ii  apache2-utils                         2.2.17-1ubuntu1                            utility programs for webservers
ii  apache2.2-bin                         2.2.17-1ubuntu1                            Apache HTTP Server common binary files
ii  apache2.2-common                      2.2.17-1ubuntu1                            Apache HTTP Server common files
ii  libapache2-mod-auth-mysql             4.3.9-13ubuntu1                            Apache 2 module for MySQL authentication
ii  libapache2-mod-php5                   5.3.5-1ubuntu7.2                           server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module)

I think (not sure) that libapache2-mod-php5 is the essential package to run php files with apache. So, make sure at least you have this one installed, and search a little about which packages to install to have a full php/apache installation. If you are installing xampp, download the most recent version and make sure you install it as root.