I am hosting a website on my own private server (a Raspeberry Pi 3 running Raspbian, based on Ubuntu 16.04) on which I installed LAMP (following this step-by-step guide) and WordPress (following this one).
I installed WordPress in a "secondary" site, meaning that it is in a folder that is contained within my "main" site's folder. The main site location is /var/www/my-main-site/, which contains the folder /var/www/my-main-site/my-secondary-site, where all WordPress files are (below I copied the folder structures and their permissions).
The secondary site can be reached through an alias, which I configured in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/my-main-site.conf file as follows
<VirtualHost *:port>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName my-public-ip:port
Alias "/my-secondary-site" "/var/www/my-main-site/my-secondary-site"
DocumentRoot /var/www/my-main-site/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
While testing it with two sample .html files it all works: I can access my main site through my-public-ip:port and the secondary site through my-public-ip:port/my-secondary-site. After this test, I installed WordPress.
The problem is that when I try to access the secondary site to complete the WordPress configuration through the web interface I get this error
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /my-secondary-site on this server.
Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe
Following step 3 from the guide I enabled .htaccess overrides by adding these lines at the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
<Directory /var/www/my-main-site/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Following step5, I changed the permissions for my folders as follows (note that my-user is the user I use to connect through ssh, which has root privileges):
drwxr-xr-x 4 my-user www-data 4096 May 1 11:48 my-main-site
/* which contains these two folders*/
---> drwxr-xr-x 2 my-user www-data 4096 May 1 11:01 public_html
---> drwxr-sr-x 5 my-user www-data 4096 May 1 14:22 my-secondary-site
/* files and folders in /var/www/my-main-site/my-secondary-site
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 147 May 1 11:50 index.html
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 418 Sep 25 2013 index.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 19935 Jan 6 20:32 license.txt
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 7415 Mar 18 17:13 readme.html
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 5438 Mar 18 16:07 wp-activate.php
---> drwxr-sr-x 9 my-user www-data 4096 Apr 3 22:19 wp-admin
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 364 Dec 19 2015 wp-blog-header.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 1627 Aug 29 2016 wp-comments-post.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 2853 Dec 16 2015 wp-config-sample.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 3261 May 1 12:59 wp-config.php
---> drwxrwsr-x 5 my-user www-data 4096 May 1 12:35 wp-content
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 3669 Aug 20 2017 wp-cron.php
---> drwxr-sr-x 18 my-user www-data 12288 Apr 3 22:19 wp-includes
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 2422 Nov 21 2016 wp-links-opml.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 3306 Aug 22 2017 wp-load.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 36593 Apr 3 17:22 wp-login.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 8048 Jan 11 2017 wp-mail.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 16246 Oct 4 2017 wp-settings.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 30071 Oct 18 2017 wp-signup.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 4620 Oct 24 2017 wp-trackback.php
---> -rw-r--r-- 1 my-user www-data 3065 Aug 31 2016 xmlrpc.php
I tried to give ownership of /var/www/my-primary-site to the www-data user through sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/my-primary-site/, but the problem persisted.
I also tried changing the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file to allow override to the whole /var/www/ folder as follows, but nothing changed.
/* From... */
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
/* .... to */
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Any ideas?
