Error setting up multiple vhosts with Apache2 on Mint 15

Question

I just installed Apache2 on mint 15. I am able to see the localhost and so decided to add virtual hosts for my projects.

1. I have added the hostnames at /etc/hosts

   127.0.0.1 eclipse

2. I also added vhost details at /etc/apache2/site-avaliable:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerAdmin webmaster@eclipse
   ServerName eclipse
   ServerAlias www.eclipse
   
   # Indexes+Document Root
   DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
   DocumentRoot /home/cygnus/Dropbox/Workspace_Eclipse
   
   #logfiles
   ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/eclipse-error.log
   CustomLog /var/log/apache2/eclipse-access.log combined
   
   <Directory /home/cygnus/Dropbox/Workspace_Eclipse>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride all
       Order Deny,Allow
       Deny from all
       Allow from 127.0.0.1
   </Directory>
   <IfModule dir_module>
       DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
   </IfModule>
   
   </VirtualHost>
   

3. I activated the vhost using:

   sudo a2ensite example.com 
   

4. Also added following to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

   ServerName localhost
   ServerName eclipse
   

After all the work I checked:

    http://localhost - works OK.
    http://eclipse - gives 403 error.

Do I need to do anything more to add vhost in linux? Did I miss or mess up some step? Any help is appreciated - Thanks in advance :)

Update: I tried changing the DocumentRoot to "/var/www/test/" - this works but I need it to work at home level.

I used chown and chgrp to set owner and group to both www-data and root - neither worked.

Answer 1

Found my answer here

All I was missing was: chmod -R 755 /home/cygnus/Dropbox/*

Answer 2

It's probably the <Directory> container:

<Directory /home/cygnus/Dropbox/Workspace_Eclipse>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

Are you sure your requests are actually coming from 127.0.0.1? What's the remote_addr IP that shows up in the logs? To verify, try removing the Deny from all line and see if you can access it.