[REOPENED] Apache doesn't find webpage

[jody]

I am trying to get Apache running properly on our CentOS 7 machine ('serverB').

After having installed httpd I started it and my browser displayed the default Apache start page when i pointed it at serverB.

The webpage i actually want to access is on serverB at
~jody/public_html/index.html

I added a few lines to httpd.conf (copied from a httpd.conf on our old (CentOS6) server)

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LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so

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<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    UserDir "enabled *"
    UserDir "disabled root"
    UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

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Redirect permanent /jody http://serverB.uzh.ch/~jody

<Directory "/home/serverB/">
        Deny from all
</Directory>

<Directory "/home/serverB/jody">
        Allow from all
        AllowOverride All
</Directory>

<Directory "/home/">
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
     AllowOverride None
     Deny from all
</Directory>

Doing
systemctl restart httpd.service
returned no error.

But when i point my browser at http://serverB.uzh.ch/~jody
I get a 404:

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The requested URL /~jody was not found on this server.

[begin edit]
if i put a simple index.html into /var/www/html it is displayed correctly when i point my browser at http://serverB.uzh.ch/.
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What do i have to do to display webpages situated in home directories?

[TrevorH]

You didn't need to add a LoadModule as one already exists in CentOS 7 as /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-base.conf:LoadModule

You also cannot just copy from CenTOS 6 httpd to CentOS 7 as there are syntax differences between httpd 2.2.15 (el6) and 2.4.6 (el7). You'll want to check the docs to make sure that your additions are valid.

[jody]

Thanks for the clarification - i did not expect the syntax to differ...

So i went back to the original httpd.conf and only added the line

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UserDir public_html

which should, according to
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto ... _html.html
translate something like
http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html
to the file path
/home/rbowen/public_html/file.html

I restarted httpd, but even so i only get back a

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The requested URL /~jody/index.html was not found on this server.

Are there any other settings i have to change in order to access http://serverB.uzh.ch/~jody/index.html ?

[pjsr2]

You also need to adjust the SELinux context. Did you do that?

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sudo setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs on
sudo restorecon -R /home 

See instructions on https://www.server-world.info/en/note?o ... =httpd&f=5

[TrevorH]

And edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf as I am fairly sure that the bits needed to make it work are all commented out in there by default

[jody]

Thank you for your suggestions.

After adjusting the SELinux context i followed all steps in the page indicated by pjsr (including setting the mode of the home directory to 711).

Now i can access the pages in my publiic_html directory!

[jody]

I have hit another obstacle.
On our server we have two home directories, one for normal users (under /home) and one for wiki pages of projects (/home/projects).

For example we have user gorgon (representing a project) which has the home directory /home/projects/gorgon.
In this home directory there is a public_html subdirectory containing an index.html.
I have also added this to conf.d/userdir.conf

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<Directory "/home/projects/*/public_html">
    AllowOverride All
    Options None
    Require method GET POST OPTIONS
</Directory>

But i can not access http://serverB.uzh.ch/~gorgon/index.html: i get
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~gorgon/index.html on this server.on this server.

But all the permissions of files and subdirectories for /home/projects/gorgon are equal to the ones for /home/jody (which i can access).
I also did

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 $ sudo setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs on
 $ sudo restorecon -R /home/projects
 $ sudo systemctl restart httpd

But i still can't access gorgon's index.html.

On our CentOS 6 we had this configuration with two different home directories. How can i achieve this in CentOS 7?