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permissions - Apache CentOS 7 403 Forbidden Anyone?



I am trying to setup a situation where I can FTP to my Linux CentOS 7 server and update the web site files from my Windows 7 system. At this point I can FTP to my user's folder using vsftp (/home/robert) and Apache seems to work for the default web site (/var/www/html). I created a virtual host for port 8080 and if I point it to /var/www/8080/public_html it works fine but as soon as I point it to /home/robert/public_html it comes back with 403 Forbidden. You don't have permission to access / on this server.
The apache error log shows



[Wed Mar 18 16:12:27.546621 2015] [core:error]
[pid 21204] (13)Permission denied: [client 192.168.1.66:57090]
AH00035: access to / denied (filesystem path '/home/robert')
because search permissions are missing on a component of the path



The apache conf file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) has this entry for Virtual Host



Listen 80
Listen 8080

# Virtual Hosts

    ServerName 192.168.1.10:8080
#   DocumentRoot /var/www/8080/public_html

    DocumentRoot /home/robert/public_html



The permissions for /home/robert/public_html/index.html are below



drwxr-xr-x.   7 root root   66 Mar  9 17:16 home
dr-x---r-x. 15 robert robert 4096 Mar 16 22:51 robert
drwxr-xr-x. 2 robert robert   23 Mar 17 23:28 public_html
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 robert robert 332 Mar 17 23:28 index.html



This seems like a permissions issue but I am unclear how to proceed. Do I need to add apache user to my robert individual group? Is selinux doing something here? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.



UPDATED: ok it appears to me that all web sites are supposed to be located under the /var/www/ folder. It seems selinux wants it that way. So how do I remotely FTP and access (read/write) the web site files??? Let's say I want user robert to FTP to /var/www/testweb and be able to read/write the files there. How is that accomplished???



UPDATED: I looked at the answer posted and ran the three commands below



setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs on
setsebool -P ftp_home_dir on

restorecon -r -v /home


Looks like it did something but the result is the same. I can FTP to user folder still but web site does not show up...403 error.



UPDATED: I also tried to run the following command however it errored out on all files



Command I ran



chcon -Rv --type=httpd_t /home/robert/public_html



Error I received



chcon: failed to change context of ‘index.html’ to ‘unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_t:s0’: Permission denied


I also turned selinux off using setenforce 0 but I still got 403.
Advice appreciated...thank you.


Answer




I think I figured it out. Apache was working but the last command that made ftp work while still having selinux running was 



setsebool -P ftpd_full_access on


Once I set that then FTP worked as it should. So now I can FTP from my Windows 7 machine, update, publish change my web site files and Apache happily delivers the content. Wow...that took days to solve. Crazy. I setup another user just to test and it all works just fine.


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