Apache configuration for a simple test page - php

Question

I'm trying to get a handle on Apache configuration files. One of the things I want to do is move some webpages away from the /var/www directory. I have a working configuration in my own pc (name is pc01). There is a webpage I use for tests in /var/www/compile/ and inside there is a single page file: compile.php.
I moved the compile folder to /home/web/compile. And I created this configuration file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ctest
DocumentRoot /home/web/compile/
<Directory />
Order Allow,Deny
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/compile.log combined
</VirtualHost>
As I understand the tutorials I have used if I point my browser to pc01/ctest/compile.php I should see the webpage. However All I get is:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /ctest/compile.php on this server.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to set file owner to apache user (user running web server).
Default user for web server is www-data. Try this command in terminal:
chown www-data:www-data /home/web/compile -R

Answer 2

Found it!! The key was to modify the apache2.conf file (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf in Debian) to add another document root other than /var/www. Then it started working. Thanks for the help!