apache2 : You don't have permission to access the requested directory

I don’t change any settings of apache2, they’re all default, but when I go to localhost :80 this is what I get I did chmod 754 /www/srv/htdocs here is my httpd.conf

#
# /etc/apache2/httpd.conf 
#
# This is the main Apache server configuration file.  It contains the
# configuration directives that give the server its instructions.
# See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/> for detailed information about
# the directives.

# Based upon the default apache configuration file that ships with apache,
# which is based upon the NCSA server configuration files originally by Rob
# McCool. This file was knocked together by Peter Poeml <poeml+apache@suse.de>.

# If possible, avoid changes to this file. It does mainly contain Include
# statements and global settings that can/should be overridden in the
# configuration of your virtual hosts.

# Quickstart guide:
# http://en.opensuse.org/Apache_Quickstart_HOWTO


# Overview of include files, chronologically:
#
# httpd.conf
#  | 
#  |-- uid.conf  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  UserID/GroupID to run under
#  |-- server-tuning.conf  . . . . . . . . .  sizing of the server (how many processes to start, ...)
#  |-- sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf . . . . .  
[li] load these modules[/li]#  |-- listen.conf . . . . . . . . . . . . .  IP adresses / ports to listen on
#  |-- mod_log_config.conf . . . . . . . . .  define logging formats
#  |-- sysconfig.d/global.conf . . . . . . .  
[li] server-wide general settings[/li]#  |-- mod_status.conf . . . . . . . . . . .  restrict access to mod_status (server monitoring)
#  |-- mod_info.conf . . . . . . . . . . . .  restrict access to mod_info
#  |-- mod_usertrack.conf  . . . . . . . . .  defaults for cookie-based user tracking
#  |-- mod_autoindex-defaults.conf . . . . .  defaults for displaying of server-generated directory listings
#  |-- mod_mime-defaults.conf  . . . . . . .  defaults for mod_mime configuration
#  |-- errors.conf . . . . . . . . . . . . .  customize error responses
#  |-- ssl-global.conf . . . . . . . . . . .  SSL conf that applies to default server _and all_ virtual hosts
#  |
#  |-- default-server.conf . . . . . . . . .  set up the default server that replies to non-virtual-host requests
#  |    |--mod_userdir.conf  . . . . . . . .  enable UserDir (if mod_userdir is loaded)
#  |    `--conf.d/apache2-manual?conf  . . .  add the docs ('?' = if installed)
#  |
#  |-- sysconfig.d/include.conf  . . . . . .  
[li] your include files [/li]#  |                                             (for each file to be included here, put its name 
#  |                                              into APACHE_INCLUDE_* in /etc/sysconfig/apache2)
#  |
#  `-- vhosts.d/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  for each virtual host, place one file here
#       `-- *.conf . . . . . . . . . . . . .     (*.conf is automatically included)
#
#
# Files marked 
[li] are created from sysconfig upon server restart: instead of[/li]# these files, you edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2



#  Filesystem layout:
#
# /etc/apache2/
#  |-- charset.conv  . . . . . . . . . . . .  for mod_auth_ldap
#  |-- conf.d/
#  |   |-- apache2-manual.conf . . . . . . .  conf that comes with apache2-doc
#  |   |-- mod_php4.conf . . . . . . . . . .  (example) conf that comes with apache2-mod_php4
#  |   `-- ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  other configuration added by packages
#  |-- default-server.conf
#  |-- errors.conf
#  |-- httpd.conf  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  top level configuration file
#  |-- listen.conf
#  |-- magic
#  |-- mime.types -> ../mime.types
#  |-- mod_autoindex-defaults.conf
#  |-- mod_info.conf
#  |-- mod_log_config.conf
#  |-- mod_mime-defaults.conf
#  |-- mod_perl-startup.pl
#  |-- mod_status.conf
#  |-- mod_userdir.conf
#  |-- mod_usertrack.conf
#  |-- server-tuning.conf
#  |-- ssl-global.conf
#  |-- ssl.crl/  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  PEM-encoded X.509 Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
#  |-- ssl.crt/  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  PEM-encoded X.509 Certificates
#  |-- ssl.csr/  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  PEM-encoded X.509 Certificate Signing Requests
#  |-- ssl.key/  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  PEM-encoded RSA Private Keys
#  |-- ssl.prm/  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  public DSA Parameter Files
#  |-- sysconfig.d/  . . . . . . . . . . . .  files that are created from /etc/sysconfig/apache2
#  |   |-- global.conf
#  |   |-- include.conf
#  |   `-- loadmodule.conf
#  |-- uid.conf
#  `-- vhosts.d/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  put your virtual host configuration (*.conf) here
#      |-- vhost-ssl.template
#      `-- vhost.template



### Global Environment ######################################################
#
# The directives in this section affect the overall operation of Apache,
# such as the number of concurrent requests.

# run under this user/group id
Include /etc/apache2/uid.conf

# - how many server processes to start (server pool regulation)
# - usage of KeepAlive
Include /etc/apache2/server-tuning.conf

# ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.
# If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a &lt;VirtualHost&gt;
# container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be
# logged here.  If you *do* define an error logfile for a &lt;VirtualHost&gt;
# container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here.
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_log

# generated from APACHE_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/apache2
Include /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf

# IP addresses / ports to listen on
Include /etc/apache2/listen.conf

# predefined logging formats
Include /etc/apache2/mod_log_config.conf

# generated from global settings in /etc/sysconfig/apache2
Include /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/global.conf

# optional mod_status, mod_info
Include /etc/apache2/mod_status.conf
Include /etc/apache2/mod_info.conf

# optional cookie-based user tracking
# read the documentation before using it!!
Include /etc/apache2/mod_usertrack.conf

# configuration of server-generated directory listings
Include /etc/apache2/mod_autoindex-defaults.conf

# associate MIME types with filename extensions
TypesConfig /etc/apache2/mime.types
Include /etc/apache2/mod_mime-defaults.conf

# set up (customizable) error responses
Include /etc/apache2/errors.conf

# global (server-wide) SSL configuration, that is not specific to 
# any virtual host
Include /etc/apache2/ssl-global.conf


#forbid access to the entire filesystem by default
&lt;Directory /&gt;
    Options None
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
     Deny from all
&lt;/Directory&gt;

# use .htaccess files for overriding,
AccessFileName .htaccess
# and never show them
&lt;Files ~ "^\.ht"&gt;
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
&lt;/Files&gt;

# List of resources to look for when the client requests a directory
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

### 'Main' server configuration #############################################
#
# The directives in this section set up the values used by the 'main'
# server, which responds to any requests that aren't handled by a
# &lt;VirtualHost&gt; definition.  These values also provide defaults for
# any &lt;VirtualHost&gt; containers you may define later in the file.
#
# All of these directives may appear inside &lt;VirtualHost&gt; containers,
# in which case these default settings will be overridden for the
# virtual host being defined.
#



# Another way to include your own files
#
# The file below is generated from /etc/sysconfig/apache2,
# include arbitrary files as named in APACHE_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES and
# APACHE_CONF_INCLUDE_DIRS
Include /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/include.conf


### Virtual server configuration ############################################
#
# VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# &lt;URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/vhosts/&gt;
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
IncludeOptional /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf


# Note: instead of adding your own configuration here, consider 
#       adding it in your own file (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.local)
#       putting its name into APACHE_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES in 
#       /etc/sysconfig/apache2 -- this will make system updates 
#       easier :) 


A thought…
Do you actually have an html file in htdocs?
And, if the html file doesn’t have name apache is configured as default, you may need to explicitly name the file in your URL.

You shouldn’t need to specify port 80 or 443 (if you have SSL modules installed).

TSU

lthe fiel should be name “apache.html” ? or “apache.index.html” ?
here’s /var/log/apache2/errorlog

tail -10 error_log 
[Tue Jan 21 18:02:46.926939 2014] [core:error] [pid 14227] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:51062] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Tue Jan 21 18:02:46.926995 2014] [core:error] [pid 14227] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:51062] AH00035: access to /index.html.var denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html.var') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Tue Jan 21 18:03:43.115841 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 14209] AH00170: caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully
[Tue Jan 21 18:03:43.134315 2014] [core:notice] [pid 14209] AH00052: child pid 14232 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Jan 21 18:03:43.292534 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 14320] AH01873: Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Tue Jan 21 18:03:43.304215 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 14320] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (Linux/SUSE) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.4.20 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jan 21 18:03:43.304266 2014] [core:notice] [pid 14320] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -D SYSTEMD -D FOREGROUND'
[Tue Jan 21 18:03:47.496955 2014] [core:error] [pid 14337] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:51070] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Tue Jan 21 18:03:47.497064 2014] [core:error] [pid 14337] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:51070] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Tue Jan 21 18:03:47.497088 2014] [core:error] [pid 14337] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:51070] AH00035: access to /index.html.var denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html.var') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path 

it seems like it want to use some component from another dir which is readable only by root …? like do I’ve to put chmod 754 on whole or chown robert:users on whole /srv/www ??

Check to see if “index.html” exists, apparently apache is looking for it.

If not, run the following in a terminal (requires root to write) to create a sample page suitable for just testing whether the webserver is working.

echo "<html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body></html>" > /srv/www/htdocs/index.html

Don’t mess around with the permissions…
By default all should be setup properly.

TSU

the index.html exists in /srv/ww/htdocs so I really don’t know else what else it should be

These are the default file permissions I see in an existing apache2 install

ls -l /srv/www/htdocs

 ls -l /srv/www/htdocs
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 14 08:15 app
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3096 Jan 14 08:15 build.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1359 Jan 15 16:12 config.js
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 08:15 css
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 08:15 font
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 08:15 img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1737 Jan 14 08:15 index.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  562 Jan 14 08:15 LICENSE.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3313 Jan 14 08:15 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 14 08:15 vendor

If you think you’ve messed around with permissions, it’s always possible to try to backtrack your actions, but it might be easier to just re-install apache2, I’d assume that a force re-install should re-apply the permissions applied during install

zypper install -f apache2

BTW - I guess I should have led off with this, but you should describe how you installed and configured apache, whether you did this by simply installing the OSS package or if you did something else like download source from elsewhere.

TSU

I did reinstall as you suggest and this appeared during installation

Additional rpm output:
/usr/sbin/suexec2: cannot verify root:root 0755 - not listed in /etc/permissions 

First:
How did you install apache the first time? Did you use an OSS RPM like how I recommended you do the re-install or did you install another way?
Have you done anything to modify your machine’s security policy?
Anything else related to security, eg did you try modifying individual folder and file permissions before posting?

Just trying to get a clearer idea of your machine before recommending anything… eg simply editing /etc/permissions as your error suggests.

TSU

yes I reinstall it as suggested = zypper in -f apache2

ls -l /srv/www/htdocs
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  106 Nov  6 16:34 gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  163 Jan 21 17:37 index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2356 Sep 28 11:04 info2html.css
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2906 Jan 20 20:58 phpMyAdmin 

No, you shouldn’t edit /etc/permissions, because your changes will get lost when you install updates.
Add your local changes to /etc/permissions.local, that’s what it is there for.

But anyway, that is just a warning and can be ignored. chkstat just doesn’t know what it should set suexec2 to because it is not listed in /etc/permissions*.
It doesn’t cause any problem.

The actual error is this:

[Tue Jan 21 18:03:47.496955 2014] [core:error] [pid 14337] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:51070] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path

So apparently the permissions on either /srv/, /srv/www/, or /srv/www/htdocs/ are wrong.
Please post them:

ls -ld /srv/ /srv/www/ /srv/www/htdocs/

On a default install it would look like this:

ls -ld /srv/ /srv/www/ /srv/www/htdocs/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 27. Sep 22:24 /srv/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 27. Sep 22:24 /srv/www/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 408 27. Sep 22:24 /srv/www/htdocs/

Especially make sure that the ‘x’ bit is set for “other”, as apache runs as user “wwwrun”.


ls -ld /srv/ /srv/www/ /srv/www/htdocs/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Nov  6 16:35 /srv/                                                                                                                                                                                                 
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36 Nov  6 16:34 /srv/www/                                                                                                                                                                                             
drwxr-xr-- 1 root root 72 Jan 21 17:37 /srv/www/htdocs/                                                                                                                                                                                      
[1]+  Done                    /usr/bin/mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables

That directory doesn’t have the ‘x’ bit set for “other”, therefore apache cannot enter it, and gives you that error.

Do this and it should work:

sudo chmod o+x /srv/www/htdocs/

Thanks, so it was permissions cause, I thought it only need to be readable by others, if I try to run mozilla as root I’ll came to that earlier, but now phpmyadmin - object not fonund on http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ maybe cause of the reinstallation of apache, I’ll try to reinstall that too

Sorted, it needs to be upper case letters A, M like : http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/ but I don’t get this classical nice GUI login insteda I get something like when you’ve FTP server http://leteckaposta.cz/550358651 here’s the image(phpmyadmin.jp2), |
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http://leteckaposta.cz/550358651 ( It’s weird but I can’t upload here image from my computer).

But it was not readable by others, and especially not for Apache.
In fact, it only has to be readable by Apache, since apache serves the pages to all clients (Web Browsers).

Running Mozilla as root wouldn’t have changed anything.

Sorry but I don’t see any screenshot at the URL you posted.

I think you can change the theme in /etc/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php (I’m not sure though ATM). Maybe it is set wrong there?
Or maybe it is a permissions problem as well. Please post:

ls -la /srv/www/htdocs/phpMyAdmin/

Yes, you cannot upload pictures here, but you can also use http://susepaste.org/.

And yes, file and directory names are case-sensitive in Linux (and all other Unix variants).

actually here is the image http://on.fb.me/1hOO64q and the output of ls -la /srv/www/htdocs/phpMyAdmin/

 total 908                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2906 Jan 23 16:23 .                                                                                                                                                                                                  
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    72 Jan 21 17:37 ..                                                                                                                                                                                                 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11497 Sep 29 19:58 browse_foreigners.php                                                                                                                                                                              
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4798 Sep 29 19:58 changelog.php                                                                                                                                                                                      
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   308 Sep 29 19:58 chk_rel.php                                                                                                                                                                                        
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12351 Sep 29 19:58 config.sample.inc.php                                                                                                                                                                              
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4262 Sep 29 19:58 db_create.php                                                                                                                                                                                      
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8948 Sep 29 19:58 db_datadict.php                                                                                                                                                                                    
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   401 Sep 29 19:58 db_events.php                                                                                                                                                                                      
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2694 Sep 29 19:58 db_export.php                                                                                                                                                                                      
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   493 Sep 29 19:58 db_import.php                                                                                                                                                                                      
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9215 Sep 29 19:58 db_operations.php                                                                                                                                                                                  
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7110 Sep 29 19:58 db_printview.php                                                                                                                                                                                   
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1596 Sep 29 19:58 db_qbe.php                                                                                                                                                                                         
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   454 Sep 29 19:58 db_routines.php                                                                                                                                                                                    
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1636 Sep 29 19:58 db_search.php                                                                                                                                                                                      
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1331 Sep 29 19:58 db_sql.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10012 Sep 29 19:58 db_structure.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8175 Sep 29 19:58 db_tracking.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   364 Sep 29 19:58 db_triggers.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34036 Sep 29 19:58 export.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18902 Sep 29 19:58 favicon.ico
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2143 Sep 29 19:58 file_echo.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15529 Sep 29 19:58 gis_data_editor.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20741 Sep 29 19:58 import.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2892 Sep 29 19:58 import_status.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18833 Sep 29 19:58 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1336 Jan 23 16:23 js
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  4564 Jan 23 16:23 libraries
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   728 Sep 29 19:58 license.php
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   212 Sep 29 19:58 locale
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   696 Sep 29 19:58 navigation.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   389 Sep 29 19:58 phpinfo.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   746 Sep 29 19:58 phpmyadmin.css.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2150 Sep 29 19:58 pmd_display_field.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36878 Sep 29 19:58 pmd_general.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4943 Sep 29 19:58 pmd_pdf.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4318 Sep 29 19:58 pmd_relation_new.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2355 Sep 29 19:58 pmd_relation_upd.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2443 Sep 29 19:58 pmd_save_pos.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2555 Sep 29 19:58 prefs_forms.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14327 Sep 29 19:58 prefs_manage.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213 Sep 29 19:58 print.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6222 Sep 29 19:58 querywindow.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3967 Sep 29 19:58 schema_edit.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1712 Sep 29 19:58 schema_export.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6205 Sep 29 19:58 server_binlog.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2304 Sep 29 19:58 server_collations.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11378 Sep 29 19:58 server_databases.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4050 Sep 29 19:58 server_engines.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2261 Sep 29 19:58 server_export.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   431 Sep 29 19:58 server_import.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6594 Sep 29 19:58 server_plugins.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15927 Sep 29 19:58 server_privileges.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14697 Sep 29 19:58 server_replication.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   524 Sep 29 19:58 server_sql.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16719 Sep 29 19:58 server_status.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2193 Sep 29 19:58 server_status_advisor.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29621 Sep 29 19:58 server_status_monitor.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5723 Sep 29 19:58 server_status_queries.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30044 Sep 29 19:58 server_status_variables.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7839 Sep 29 19:58 server_variables.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1039 Sep 29 19:58 show_config_errors.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59880 Sep 29 19:58 sql.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8660 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_addfield.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13691 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_change.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9476 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_chart.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15868 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_create.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2855 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_export.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1568 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_get_field.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7308 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_gis_visualization.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   574 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_import.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10827 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_indexes.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2798 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_move_copy.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11470 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_operations.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15959 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_printview.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27396 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_relation.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13340 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_replace.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4008 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_row_action.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1966 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_select.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   928 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_sql.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13587 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_structure.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31594 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_tracking.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   144 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_triggers.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5978 Sep 29 19:58 tbl_zoom_select.php
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   108 Jan 23 16:23 themes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   835 Sep 29 19:58 themes.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1306 Sep 29 19:58 transformation_overview.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3771 Sep 29 19:58 transformation_wrapper.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   507 Sep 29 19:58 url.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6755 Sep 29 19:58 user_password.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1453 Sep 29 19:58 version_check.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7070 Sep 29 19:58 view_create.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3518 Sep 29 19:58 view_operations.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1128 Sep 29 19:58 webapp.php

Well, your Apache doesn’t seem to be able to run PHP scripts, so it just shows the content of the directory.

Do you have “apache2-mod_php5” installed? (I guess the best would be to install the whole LAMP pattern in YaST->Software Management->Views->Patterns if you didn’t do so already)

I installed whole lamp server as you sugessted and restarted apache2 and still the same

here’s /var/log/apache2/error_log


Thu Jan 23 10:42:55.770114 2014] [core:error] [pid 14340] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:60215] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Jan 23 10:42:55.770129 2014] [core:error] [pid 14340] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:60215] AH00035: access to /index.html.var denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html.var') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Jan 23 14:32:46.296228 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 1911] AH01873: Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Thu Jan 23 14:32:46.475962 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1911] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (Linux/SUSE) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.4.20 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 23 14:32:46.476019 2014] [core:notice] [pid 1911] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -D SYSTEMD -D FOREGROUND'
[Thu Jan 23 14:33:13.231103 2014] [core:error] [pid 2332] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:50174] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Jan 23 14:33:13.231180 2014] [core:error] [pid 2332] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:50174] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Jan 23 14:33:13.231201 2014] [core:error] [pid 2332] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:50174] AH00035: access to /index.html.var denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/index.html.var') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Jan 23 14:33:13.367964 2014] [core:error] [pid 2332] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:50174] AH00035: access to /favicon.ico denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Jan 23 14:33:13.369381 2014] [core:error] [pid 2332] (13)Permission denied: [client 127.0.0.1:50174] AH00035: access to /favicon.ico denied (filesystem path '/srv/www/htdocs/favicon.ico') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Thu Jan 23 16:23:48.212490 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1911] AH00170: caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully
[Thu Jan 23 16:23:48.455791 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 5955] AH01873: Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Thu Jan 23 16:23:48.465619 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 5955] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (Linux/SUSE) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.4.20 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 23 16:23:48.465677 2014] [core:notice] [pid 5955] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -D SYSTEMD -D FOREGROUND'
[Thu Jan 23 16:23:58.949584 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 5955] AH00170: caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully
[Thu Jan 23 16:23:59.179580 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 6011] AH01873: Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Thu Jan 23 16:23:59.190984 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 6011] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (Linux/SUSE) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.4.20 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 23 16:23:59.191034 2014] [core:notice] [pid 6011] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -D SYSTEMD -D FOREGROUND'
[Fri Jan 24 18:40:38.924899 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 6011] AH00170: caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully
[Fri Jan 24 18:40:40.223126 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 23310] AH01873: Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Fri Jan 24 18:40:40.330879 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 23310] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (Linux/SUSE) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.4.20 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Jan 24 18:40:40.330933 2014] [core:notice] [pid 23310] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -D SYSTEMD -D FOREGROUND'

isn’t it some missing include line somwhere in one of apache .conf files or the permissions again

AFAICS those “Permission denied” messages come from before you corrected the permissions.

I take it that “http://localhost/” works now, is that correct?

Is php5 loaded then?
Please post the setting “APACHE_MODULES” from /etc/sysconfig/apache2. It should contain “php5”.

Did you change anything in apache’s configuration? (/etc/apache2/)
By default php should work out of the box.

What happens if you explicitely call http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/index.php in a browser?