Mount GCS as apache Document Root

[Rupesh kumar]

Hi Team,

I mounted google cloud storage bucket as my apache document root using gscfuse tool, it mounted successfully file read/write happening with no issue.
I'm facing problem that when i access my website it showing 403 forbidden error in my apache access and error logs. even i also tried and mount bucket using apache uid n gid same problem coming.

[George (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello Rupesh,

To troubleshoot the issue, you can run gcsfuse with --gcs.debug which can provide you more information about the operations. Did you try overriding the the user who mounted the file system using the"allow_other" mount option? 

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I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

George

[Rupesh kumar]

HI George,

I tried multiple options to mount but still facing same issue. mount option like --debug_fuse  --debug_gcs  --debug_http --dir-mode "755" --file-mode "644" --uid "-1"  --gid "-1"  .  

[George (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello Rupesh,

As mentioned in this github link, " As a security measure, fuse itself restricts file system access to the user who mounted the file system (cf. fuse.txt). 

For this reason, gcsfuse by default shows all files as owned by the invoking user. Therefore you should invoke gcsfuse as the user that will be using the file system, not as root. You can override these behaviors with the allow_other mount option supported by fuse "

Did you have the chance to override using the allow_other mount option?

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

George