setting up permissions for Virtual Host on Centos 7

I am following a book's chapter on setting up Virtual Hosts. The process is: 1.create a file /etc/httpd/conf.d/example.com.conf 2.set its content to ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example/ And finally 3.execute apachectl configtest and apachectl graceful This appears to be working. But more commonly, DocumentRoot is located in /home/exampleuser/public_html. This path is problematic to apache group so I modified permissions to drwxr-x--- 3 exampleuser apache 4096 Feb 8 09:50 exampleuser drwxr-xr-x 2 exampleuser apache 4096 Feb 8 09:55 public_html where exampleuser is the user that to which the the directory belongs and was created with useradd exampleuser command. I also added this code in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and reloaded httpd.service. Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted The book doesn't state what is the correct permission configuration so I am wondering if I have done it correctly? Is there a security issue if I leave the permissions as they are now? httpd error_log file [Wed Feb 08 10:25:55.453239 2017] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 4848] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using example.com. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message [Wed Feb 08 10:25:55.732490 2017] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 4848] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Wed Feb 08 10:25:55.733391 2017] [lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 4848] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor [Wed Feb 08 10:25:55.736501 2017] [:warn] [pid 4848] NSSSessionCacheTimeout is deprecated. Ignoring. [Wed Feb 08 10:25:55.745349 2017] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 4848] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_auth_kerb/5.4 mod_fcgid/2.3.9 mod_nss/1.0.14 NSS/3.21 Basic ECC configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Feb 08 10:25:55.745375 2017] [core:notice] [pid 4848] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'