VPS host domain as virtual server -> 403 :(

Virtualmin
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Hello all,

I’m facing an issue with trying to set my domain name as a virtual server.

Admittedly, I’ve long used cPanel as an end user and WHM for a couple months, but quickly grew favor to Webmin/Virtualmin. It is still very new for me.

I’ve created a virtual server with, lets’ say “mydomain.me” and my hostname is set to host.mydomain.me

After creating this virtual server, and try to access mydomain.me, I receive a “403 Forbidden” error.

When accessing sub-directories through a browser, there are no issues, however, subdomains and the tld return this error.

I remember reading somewhere the directories must be executable. Am I on the right track?

I know apache automatically configures these directories initially, however, I want to make it accessible from a virtualmin virtual server.

I have consulted docs for Webmin, virtualmin and apache, however, I’m still fairly lost.

Thank you for your help in advance. :slight_smile:

-Daniel

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Howdy,

One common reason of getting that error is just not having a website loaded into the public_html folder… is the website uploaded in your case, and you have an index file such as index.html or index.php in that dir?

-Eric

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I’ve put a static index.html in the public_html directory to tell me whether or not the 403 error resolves, and sadly, it doesn’t.

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You might want to check Apache’s error log, there should be more information about why you get the 403 error.