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I'm testing Fedora 29 (I've been a Debian user for the last 10 years) for web development and I'm having a real hard time trying to make virtual hosts work in Apache (I assume it's lack of understanding on my part, to be honest).

This is the folder structure I want to work with (I know I'm deviating from the standard /var/www/html way of doing things):

/home

    /julio

        /Projects

            /Web

                /meca-innotech.com

So far, and in order to work with virtual hosts, I created the 'basic' folders and symlinks (just one for testing):

/etc

    /httpd

        /sites-available

            meca-innotech.com.conf

            template.conf

        /sites-enabled

            meca-innotech.com.conf -> /etc/httpd/sites-available/foo.conf

In order for this to work, I also made a change in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

# Virtual host definitions

IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf

My virtual host definition looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName meca-innotech.com

    DocumentRoot /home/julio/Projects/Web/meca-innotech.com

</VirtualHost>

In order to make sure Apache resolves against a valid FQDN, I added the proper line to /etc/hosts:

192.168.1.77    jmecahansen-E1-570G.meca-innotech.com    jmecahansen-E1-570G

127.0.0.1       meca-innotech.com

I also configured /etc/sysconfig/network:

HOSTNAME=jmecahansen-E1-570G

I ran httpd -S and it didn't show any errors. I also started the Apache service with sudo systemctl start httpd and everything went fine.

The problem is I'm not probably having the correct permissions or I'm lacking something I don't see by myself. For example, I've read (in SO, blog posts, some google'd sites and the output of /var/log/httpd/error_log) your home directory needs to be, at least, executable. That means the /home/julio directory needs to be chmod'ed to either 710 or 711.

Another thing I've read is Apache needs to be related to your user group so I tried with usermod -a -G julio apache but that doesn't seem to help.

Other sources for information states that you need to enable the Apache Userdir extension and run some SELinux-related commands which I don't understand at all.

Maybe I'm overdoing this and everything is reduced to follow the standard /var/www/html path and ensuring my user is a member of Apache and have the proper permissions on the aforementioned path.

In any case, I would greatly appreciate a helping hand with this. Can you give me a hint? :)