/home/user/www file permssion

Question

In /etc/apache2/sites-available/default I made the /home/me/www folder my localhost location. I have downloaded Drupal into the new www/drupal folder and even though I gave all permissions (777) Apache still can't write to it. Do I need to make another permission change?

TO make localhost not 403, I followed the steps in: http://askubuntu.com/a/232078/25656

sudo apt-get install acl
You can use man setfacl to have more info.

To add permissions to Apache:
sudo setfacl -m d:g:www-data:X,g:www-data:X /home/me
sudo setfacl -m d:g:www-data:X,g:www-data:X /home/me/Dropbox
sudo setfacl -Rm d:g:www-data:rX,g:www-data:rX /home/me/Dropbox/Web`

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default → http://paste.ubuntu.com/1534943/.

Answer 1

I have a similar setup in my machine (apache root in home folder). The folder used as apache root (~/Software/apache_htdocs) belongs to my user and has 755 permissions (but 777 should work as well). Apache runs with www-data user, as default.

The only difference seems to be in sites-available:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /home/myusername/Software/apache_htdocs
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
            </Directory>

        (... content omitted ...)
</VirtualHost>

So try deleting the second Directory directive and add allow from all on the first. To be safe, before modifying it make a backup of the file. After that restart Apache using sudo service apache2 restart.

Hope it helps