[Wylug-help] configuring LAMP

[Stephen]

What are the permissions on 
/home/nigel
/home/nigel/Documents/

As that maybe the issue. Also what is the errors present in
/var/log/apache*

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:54:40PM +0000, nigel wrote:
> Could anyone suggest what to try to get LAMP working? I am using Ubuntu
> 13.10. This LAMP will only be accessed locally by me.
> 
> When I put localhost into my browser I get 403 Forbidden
> "You don't have permission to access / on this server.
> Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80"
> 
> When I do sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> I get
>  * Starting web server apache2 AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably
> determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set
> the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
>  * 
> 
> I have done sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf and
> changed my home folder like this
> DocumentRoot /home/nigel/Documents/local
> 
> I have done sudo nautilus and set the permissions for this folder as
> best I can (I don't know what they should be set to).
> 
> Please phrase your advice in beginner's terms or, sadly, I won't
> understand you (-:
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Best wishes
> Nigel
> 
> 
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