Comments on: Installing Phusion’s Passenger on Leopard (OS X 10.5)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:06:31 +0000

I ended up giving user www access to the folders in file sharing.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:18:11 +0000

Hi,

i have the same problem. Always getting the following error:

“You don’t have permission to access / on this server.”

I configured my DocumentRoot in the vhost file to: /Users/christophbunte/Documents/workspace/project1/public

I tried to set the directory rules for the very same directory to “allow from all”. But that doesn’t help at all. Do i have to set file system permissions for the apache user?

Any help or suggestions are highly appreciated

By: timfitz

timfitz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:38:44 +0000

Thank you very much for this info. I’m now to OS X and I’ve been trying to get my virtual hosts setup for awhile. I wish I would have found this post earlier.

By: topfunky

topfunky — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:12:05 +0000

I ended up storing my configurations in a SCM in my home directory so I can easily sync them from my desktop to my laptop. You may need to tweak permissions to get this to work correctly.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:37:05 +0000

Damn, can´t get this working still .. Still forbidden..

By: Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:18:03 +0000

@Thomas - unfortunately, you have moved beyond my knowledge of Apache running on OS X. I have only set up the one virtual host on my machine so far and it is only for development. It is not being served publicly. I am also not sure how to check which users have access to a particular directory in OS X. My *nix skills are a little rusty.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:33:09 +0000

Hi again,

You mean in “[...]/apache2/users/myshortname.conf” ? Yes I have a similar Directory block there as per your recipe. I guess you don´t need it in httpd.conf as well.

But you mention another interesting thing: “..allow access to the directories..”. Can you check which users on your system that has access to your “Dev” directory ? I know apache2 works as user “www” and on my system “www” does not specifically have access to the directory I want to host from… Is this a problem ? How to specifically give access ?

By: Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston — Sat, 31 May 2008 05:09:30 +0000

I had this same error and it was because I forgot to allow access to the directories where the virtual host was pointing. Did you remember to put something similar to this in to your httpd.conf file?


    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

The Directory in the first line should point to a parent directory of where your rails app is located and where your virtual host points to. In my case, I simply grant access to my entire Dev directory so I don’t have to worry about it for future apps I may want to deploy.

Other than that, I am not sure. I have not used .local domains before on a Mac. Good luck in figuring it out.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:21:32 +0000

Hi, great write-up !

But any idea why I keep getting “Forbidden to access /” from Apache on 10.5.3 ? What may I have overlooked ?

Only difference to your recipe is that I use “.local” domains …

By: Min Soo Kim

Min Soo Kim — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:04:12 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for your instructions.
Keep up the good work.