python - How to solve permission errors when deploying flask app on apache using wsgi? -

i having issue deploying flask app on apache2 using wsgi. apache2 restarts if running fine, when try access browser "403 forbidden" error. here code.

webroombooker.wsgi

#!/usr/bin/python  import sys import logging  logging.basicconfig(stream=sys.stderr)  sys.path.insert(0,"/home/pi/website/webroombooker.py")  webroombooker import app application 

here directory tree of directory flask application , wsgi file in.

/home/pi/website ├── hellotest.py ├── hellotest.pyc ├── index.html.en ├── index.html.en~orig.html ├── main.html ├── poweredbymacosx.gif ├── poweredbymacosxlarge.gif ├── templates │       ├── profile.html │       ├── registration2.html │       ├── registration.html │       ├── seleniumtemplate2.html │       └── seleniumtemplatetime.html ├── test ├── webroombooker.py ├── webroombooker.pyc └── webroombooker.wsgi 

and here apache virtual host file.

<virtualhost *:80>             servername localhost              wsgiscriptalias / /home/pi/website/webroombooker.wsgi              <directory /home/pi/website/webroombooker.py/>                     require granted             </directory>             errorlog ${apache_log_dir}/error.log             loglevel warn             customlog ${apache_log_dir}/access.log combined </virtualhost> 

here relevant error log lines showing error now.

[thu nov 17 14:07:39.939432 2016] [authz_core:error] [pid 15949:tid          1972368432] [client ::1:55490] ah01630: client denied server     configuration: /home/pi/website/webroombooker.wsgi [thu nov 17 14:07:40.260731 2016] [authz_core:error] [pid 15949:tid 1963979824] [client ::1:55490] ah01630: client denied server configuration: /home/pi/website/webroombooker.wsgi, referer: http://localhost/ [thu nov 17 14:07:43.506135 2016] [authz_core:error] [pid 15949:tid 1955591216] [client ::1:55490] ah01630: client denied server configuration: /home/pi/website/webroombooker.wsgi [thu nov 17 14:07:43.702542 2016] [authz_core:error] [pid 15949:tid 1947202608] [client ::1:55490] ah01630: client denied server configuration: /home/pi/website/webroombooker.wsgi, referer: http://localhost/ 

i'm pretty new appreciate it. thank in advanced help.

it's result of unix permissions on file apache accessing. apache runs user www-data, files owned user. try running sudo chmod a+w <filename> relevant files, wsgi files