[SOLVED]You don't have permission to access / on this server

[openyk]

Hi guys, I think I must be missing something very simple when softlinking my project to the web folder because I get that permission error when accessing the server at its IP address. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 x64 on a digitalocean instance.

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# SSH to server. As root user:
# (Install VestaCP, clone the project repo)

# Delete the existing files in web folder
rm /home/admin/web/default.domain/public_html/*

# Softlink the project to web folder
ln -s /home/admin/web/default.domain/project_folder/upload_folder /home/admin/web/default.domain/public_html/

# Change project ownership for apache server
chown -R admin.www-data /home/admin/web/default.domain/project_folder/

Then I browse to the server's ip address on mozilla, and it should work but it isn't. Funny thing is I had it working before I think but didn't record the steps that time. :P

Help appreciated!

Solution: It turns out I had messed up by trying to take a shortcut. Instead of writing the full

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# Softlink the project to web folder
ln -s /home/admin/web/default.domain/project_folder/upload_folder /home/admin/web/default.domain/public_html/

I had instead navigated to the default.domain folder and did ln -s projectfolder/uploadfolder public_html/ which did NOT work.

So the CORRECT way is to symlink the absolute paths for the upload folder and web folder, just as displayed in the first code block above

[imperio]

Hi,
i think this problem with that

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Change project ownership for apache server
chown -R admin.www-data /home/admin/web/default.domain/project_folder/