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Hiawatha version: 7.5
Operating System: Ubuntu 11.04

Hi Hugo,

I want to enable virtualhosts in Hiawatha but somehow I can't work around a permission problem (403). I've read most of the documentation that is available on your website but I am unable to find a solution

# Hiawatha main configuration file

ServerId = www-data
ConnectionsTotal = 150
ConnectionsPerIP = 10
SystemLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/system.log
GarbageLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/garbage.log


Binding
	{
		Port = 80
	}

#CGIhandler = /usr/bin/perl:pl
CGIhandler = /usr/bin/php-cgi:php
#CGIhandler = /usr/bin/python:py
#CGIhandler = /usr/bin/ruby:rb
#CGIhandler = /usr/bin/ssi-cgi:shtml
CGIextension = cgi
#
FastCGIserver 
	{
		FastCGIid = PHP5
		ConnectTo = 127.0.0.1:2005
		Extension = php, php5
		SessionTimeout = 30
	}

Hostname = 127.0.0.1
WebsiteRoot = /var/www/hiawatha
StartFile = index.html
AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/access.log
ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/error.log
#ErrorHandler = 404:/error.cgi

UserWebsites = yes
UserDirectory = public

VirtualHost
	{
		Hostname = localhost
		WebsiteRoot = /home/user/public
		StartFile = index.php
		AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/user_access.log
		ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/user_error.log
		ExecuteCGI = yes
		UserWebsites = yes
		TimeForCGI = 5
		UseFastCGI = PHP5
		
	}

Maybe I missed something very simple...

Cheers

If you change to user www-data, are you able to read the files in /home/user/public?

Change the permissions on /home/user/public?

If you are not able to read the files in that directory when changed to used www-data, yes, you could try that as a possible solution.

Played with a few permissions like eg:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data public, user:www-data public and www-data:user 

but no progress.

i think its because you use localhost as a domain name. the linux system dont like that.

What URL are you using in your browser?
What does the error logfile say?

Thanks for the support, guys!

Let me try to explain a few things. I have a working setup
on my FreeBSD box. I can access my public directory with
"http://testcode.local/~user/". I don't have special permissions
on the public directory just the user permissions. I can read and write
my code stuff as a user.

My configuration under FreeBSD:

1) I have a "127.0.0.1 testcode.local" entry in /etc/hosts.
2) In hiawatha.conf I have

Binding {
	Port = 80
}

CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/php-cgi:php
CGIextension = cgi
ExecuteCGI = yes

Hostname = 127.0.0.1
WebsiteRoot = /usr/local/www/hiawatha
StartFile = index.html
AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/access.log
ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/error.log
#ErrorHandler = 404:/error.cgi
UserDirectory = public
UserWebsites = yes

VirtualHost {
	Hostname = localhost
	WebsiteRoot = /usr/home/user/public
	StartFile = index.php
	AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/user_access.log
	ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/user_error.log
	TimeForCGI = 5
	UserWebsites = yes
}

Now I am trying this setup under Ubuntu and with "http://testcode.local/" I can
view the welcome page. So far its working but when I add "~user/" at the end of
the url I am denied file access according to my logfile.

Cheers

Note that when you are using testcode.local, it doesn't match the virtual host with hostname 'localhost' and therefor the default host (with hostname '127.0.0.1') will be used.

My guess is that the homedirectory of the user 'user' is /usr/home/user and that the public directory contains a file named index.php. Since the host with hostname '127.0.0.1' does not allow CGI exection, Hiawatha will return the 403 Forbidden.

Changing the hostname of the virtual host from 'localhost' to 'testcode.local' will probably solve the problem.

This is where it hits me. It doesn't.

So true!

After trying several times with different configurations. I've come to the conclusion that the setup that I am trying to achieve does not work on Ubuntu but works on the old-fart system FreeBSD.

I have no idea what goes wrong on your system, but I've been running Hiawatha on Ubuntu for many years. No problem what so ever. Ubuntu can't be the problem.

Since localhost points to 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.1 doesn't allow CGI execution. The idea of running UserWebsites on localhost is useless.

Thanks, guys

Tsjongejongjonge... Got it working!

Goed zo! Can you tell us what the problem was?

In the middle of the battle. Somehow I've managed to change permissions on my home directory and forgot about it! Permissions for group and other on my home directory were set to none. Pffft. Now I have Banshee running under banshee.local

Oke, let me know what you think of Hiawatha and Banshee.