httpd virtualhost source in /home

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Hi there,

I'm trying to keep the source of my website in my home directory instead of /var/www/html. Something must be missing, though, because it doesn't work.

What I've done so far:

sudo ln -s /home/oltarus/projects/blog /var/www/html/blog

Not working, I checked that httpd.conf hadn't been changed and that Options FollowSymLink was still there for /var/www/html. Everything looked OK! This is not the way I want to do that anyway, please keep reading.

I then tried something better :

Content of "/etc/httpd/conf.d/blog.conf":

<VirtualHost blog.local:80>
        DocumentRoot /home/oltarus/projects/blog
        ServerName blog.local
        <Directory /home/oltarus/projects/blog>
                Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
                AllowOverride all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I then added the following line to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1   blog.local

I also checked that all the directories (home, oltarus, projects and of course blog) had a o+x right.

After doing all that, and after a service restart, the "Test Page for the Apache HTTP Server on Fedora" is displayed when I type http://blog.local in my browser, instead of my index.php located in /home/oltarus/projects/blog.

Any idea where it went wrong along the line?

NOTE: I don't know if it changes a thing, but other websites are set up the same way on my computer (but still located in /var/www/html for now). They are loaded after, though, because their name comes after "blog" in the alphabetical order.