Changing root directory in apache2 is giving 403 Forbidden error

Question

Though there are many similar questions here but I could not fix my problem from them. I have installed Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) in my ubuntu(14.04). I have changed two configuration files to change the default DocumentRoot of apache which is /var/www to /home/name/www. The files I have changed are /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf. In apache2.conf I put

<Directory /home/name/www>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

and in 000-default.conf I changed,

DocumentRoot /home/name/www

My /home/name/www file has necessary permissions.

drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data www

But when I try to access localhost from browser I receive You don't have permission to access / on this server. error. What have i missed?

Answer 1

For changing the default root directory of apache from /var/www to /home/<username>/www following changes worked for me. I edited the following values of etc/apache2/apache2.conf file like this. Before editing the file it's a good practice to keep a backup of the original.

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /home/<username>/www>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

Then I changed /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf file's DocumentRoot.

DocumentRoot /home/<username>/www

After that restart the apache server,

sudo service apache2 restart