The simplest thing is to to log on to the server with http-web (do a sudo su - http-web) and then navigate there to see where you fail. Also be sure that DocumentRoot from the httpd.conf points to a subdirectory of /opt/fpp/www.
Kurt Bremser AMOS Austria Newton was wrong. There is no gravity. The Earth sucks. ________________________________________ Von: Tom Hammond [tomino...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. September 2016 14:30 An: users@httpd.apache.org Betreff: Re: [users@httpd] Change user for Apache web server to a non-privileged user? [wd-vc] Hi Kurt, Thanks for the reply! May you provide the command that properly adds read/execute permissions to DocumentRoot at /opt/fpp/www I am new to learning Linux and could use some help. :) Thanks agian, Tom On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Bremser, Kurt (AMOS Austria GmbH) <kurt.brem...@allianz.at<mailto:kurt.brem...@allianz.at>> wrote: Looks like http-web misses read/execute permissions on your DocumentRoot directory. Kurt Bremser AMOS Austria Newton was wrong. There is no gravity. The Earth sucks. ________________________________________ Von: Tom Hammond [tomino...@gmail.com<mailto:tomino...@gmail.com>] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. September 2016 14:16 An: users@httpd.apache.org<mailto:users@httpd.apache.org> Betreff: [users@httpd] Change user for Apache web server to a non-privileged user? [wd-vc] Hello everyone, I have an Apache 2.2x server and would like to harden security so that hackers can't get in easily to the Apache webserver. One suggestion is to change the user/group for Apache to a non-privileged account. Currently the user "fpp" is the default user for Apache which has access to the operating system via sudo commands. I entered these commands to create a non-privileged account: sudo groupadd http-web sudo useradd -d /opt/fpp/www/ -g http-web http-web I then edited /etc/apache2/envvars to change these lines: export APACHE_RUN_USER=http-web export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=http-web I also ran this command to change user/group permissions on this folder: sudo chown -R http-web:http-web /var/lock/apache2/ sudo chown -R http-web:http-web /opt/fpp/www Finally, I restarted the Apache service with this command: sudo service apache2 restart When I try to access the website on this server, I receive the following message: Forbidden: You don't have permission to access / on this server. I've been scouring the Internet trying to figure out how to switch the default "fpp" Apache user to a non-privileged account and can't figure it out. Can someone shed some light on this? Thanks! 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