403 Forbidden with Passenger/Apache/Rails

[Xiaoli Wu]

I tried to deploy one of my app according to the manual under Apache 2.4.3. And add these lines to the httpd.conf:

LoadModule passenger_module /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p385/gems/passenger-3.0.19/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so

PassengerRoot /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p385/gems/passenger-3.0.19

PassengerRuby /home/user/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p385/ruby

<VirtualHost *:80>

      ServerName domain.com

      # !!! Be sure to point DocumentRoot to 'public'!

      DocumentRoot /home/user/RailsProject/MEbGDP/public

      <Directory /home/user/RailsProject/MEbGDP/public>

         # This relaxes Apache security settings.

         Options FollowSymLinks

         AllowOverride None

         Order allow,deny

         Allow from all

         # MultiViews must be turned off.

         # Options -MultiViews

      </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

However, when goes to domain.com, it gives me a 403 error - "You don't have permission to access / on this server." The file/folders are already set to 755... How should I fix this? Many thanks!

[Rick Schmitty]

Did you check http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#_i_get_a_403_forbidden_error ?