Need help with apache2 configs/webmin/and virtualmin service

Webmin
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Here’s what i’m running. installed webmin/virtualmin/usermin… using apache2. the normal default on webmin. i’ve created a virtual server with virtualmin.

the services are all good. everything works. no issues. except when i put my website up

my issue: the server doesn’t see/read my .htaccess file.

with DEFAULT configs and all, here is what i changed: enabled rewrite apache mod in apache2 config. i also went into the virtual server settings and set AllowOverride None to All. it SHOULD be working now. however, its not.

here is my virtual server config:

SuexecUserGroup “#1007” “#1009”
ServerName example.org
ServerAlias www.example.org
ServerAlias webmail.example.org
ServerAlias admin.example.org
DocumentRoot /home/example/public_html
ErrorLog /var/log/virtualmin/example.org_error_log
CustomLog /var/log/virtualmin/example.org_access_log combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/example/cgi-bin/
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5
<Directory “/home/example/public_html”>
Options -Indexes +IncludesNOEXEC +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +ExecCGI
allow from all
AllowOverride All Options=ExecCGI,Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Require all granted
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
AddHandler fcgid-script .php5
FCGIWrapper /home/example/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php
FCGIWrapper /home/example/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php5

<Directory /home/example/cgi-bin>
allow from all
AllowOverride All Options=ExecCGI,Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Require all granted

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =webmail.example.org
RewriteRule ^(.) https://example.org:20000/ [R]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =admin.example.org
RewriteRule ^(.) https://example.org:10000/ [R]
RemoveHandler .php
RemoveHandler .php5
php_admin_value engine Off
FcgidMaxRequestLen 1073741824
<Location /git>
DAV on
AuthType Basic
AuthName example.org
AuthUserFile /home/example/etc/git.basic.passwd
Require valid-user
Satisfy All
RedirectMatch ^/git$ http://example.org/git/gitweb.cgi
RedirectMatch ^/git/$ http://example.org/git/gitweb.cgi
RewriteEngine off
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

<Location /git/website.git>
Require user admin

and my .htaccess file inside my website directory

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

(all this does is rewrite all http requests to https to use SSL.)

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Howdy,

Well, just as an experiment – what happens if you add this to the top of your .htaccess file:

deny from all

Does that prevent your website from loading, and show a denied error?

-Eric

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thanks. that worked, so i figured it didn’t like the… i guess… php wrapper it put it in. took a while to disable. now instead of that site being owned by the user, its now owned by www-data and being directly handled. some stuff broke, but that’s ok. this is the only domain being handled by this server. this being the main domain and not one of our subdomain sites, such as minecraft or you know… other random subdomains that aren’t our main website, i’d rather have it working than not.

anyway, you helped show me it WAS working, but i guess something was up with the config, so i just kinda went in and removed a bunch of stuff i’d only use for virtualmin IF i was letting other users sign up for domain hosting and such… which i’m not, so i didn’t need. thanks again.

4

to be super clear, the issue was solved and you did help. thanks.

5

That’s great, I’m glad you were able to get it working!

-Eric

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