Re: Permission Still Denied with Moodle (Apache Users)

"AH00035: access to /moodle/ denied (filesystem path '/var/www/html/moodle') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path"

This implies that the x permission is missing. You posted for every directory except /var . What are its permissions?

I have no idea if selinux could get in the way or if setenforce 0 really gets rid of it.

Incorrect access detected, this server may be accessed only through "http://*my ip*/moodle" address, sorry. Please notify server administrator.

Does Moodle modify the default 403 error page? That is probably what this is.

If I use http://*my ip*/moodle or http://*my ip*:80/moodle I get this error:
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to *my ip*

Is apache set to listen to an IP besides 127.0.0.1?

Run httpd -S for the list of active vhosts.

- Y

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Timothy Curchod <timofeyc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I've tried a few times to setup moodle on LAMP but failed each time with the following errors:

If I use localhost/moodle, I get this error:

Incorrect access detected, this server may be accessed only through "http://*my ip*/moodle" address, sorry. Please notify server administrator.

If I use http://*my ip*/moodle or http://*my ip*:80/moodle I get this error:

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to *my ip*

If I look in the /etc/httpd/logs/error_log I see:

[Wed Oct 09 14:59:46.240266 2013] [core:error] [pid 2279] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:43084] AH00035: access to /moodle/ denied (filesystem path '/var/www/html/moodle') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path

The wiki says this is an error 13 which indicates a filesystem permissions problem but I can't see where. I've looked at a lot of questions relating to permission problems that people have had and it all seems to show that I have things set up correctly, or have tried the things that should work.

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf contains
...
User apache
Group apache
...
<Directory />
AllowOverride none

Require all denied
</Directory>
...
<Directory "/var/www">
AllowOverride None
# Allow open access:
Require all granted

</Directory>
...
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
#AllowOverride None
all
Require all granted

</Directory>

My directory permissions are:

drwxrwxr-x. 4 apache apache 4096 Oct 9 08:23 www

drwxrwxr-x. 2 apache apache 4096 Jul 31 15:50 cgi-bin

drwxrwxr-x. 3 apache apache 4096 Oct 9 14:07 html

-rw-r--r--. 1 apache root 20 Oct 9 11:32 info.php
drwxr-xr-x. 44 apache apache 4096 Oct 9 14:18 moodle

-rw-r-----. 1 apache apache 690 Oct 9 14:18 config.php
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache timothy 35147 Oct 4 11:43 COPYING.txt
drwxr-xr-x. 7 apache timothy 4096 Oct 9 14:06 course
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache timothy 2594 Oct 4 11:43 draftfile.php

drwxr-xr-x. 17 apache timothy 4096 Oct 9 14:06 enrol
drwxr-xr-x. 2 apache timothy 4096 Oct 9 14:06 error
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache timothy 3923 Oct 4 11:43 file.php
drwxr-xr-x. 3 apache timothy 4096 Oct 9 14:06 files

drwxr-xr-x. 14 apache timothy 4096 Oct 9 14:06 filter
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache timothy 953 Oct 4 15:14 githash.php
drwxr-xr-x. 8 apache timothy 4096 Oct 9 14:06 grade
drwxr-xr-x. 3 apache timothy 4096 Oct 9 14:06 group

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache timothy 1423 Oct 4 11:43 help_ajax.php
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache timothy 1761 Oct 4 11:43 help.php
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache timothy 13203 Oct 4 11:43 index.php

* tried setenforce 0. The ls -alZ command returns

-rwxr-xr-x. apache timothy unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 index.php

* tried chown -R root on all files as well.

* ran the moodle setup script as such: # sudo -u apache /usr/bin/php install.php

I am using the following setup:
Fedora 19
Apache 2.4.6
PHP 5.5.4
moodle 2.5

MariaDB 5.5.32

Since the Moodle docs indicate this is a permissions problem with apache, I thought I should ask here first. Any suggestions or solutions would be much welcomed.

Thanks,

Timothy Curchod.