Well, chmod'ing the users home directory to 711 did the trick. Is it like this with all distro's or just RH? Don P.S. Thanx for the help.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Chung" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:52 PM Subject: Re: user web pages. > I've encountered similar problems in the past, my quick solution was to > issue a chmod 711 on the user's directory.. > > ie.. > > http://www.dom.com/~mc > > $> pwd > /home/mc/public_html > > $> chmod 711 /home/mc > > I believe this stems from the default install of Apache running as the user > "nobody" therefore being unable to access/read your public_html directory > > > Marc > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Harrop" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 4:23 PM > Subject: user web pages. > > > > I've been trying to get the user web pages working for Apache on my RH 6.1 > > install. As far as I know the only option for makeing sure this works is > in > > the srm.conf.. (I guess access.conf and srm.conf can be inserted into the > > httpd.conf and still work fine) Just set the UserDir to a directory like > > public_html and then when a ~user request is sent over http it looks in > that > > directory of whichever user was entered. I keep getting access denied > > errors though. As far as I know the module in apache used to do this is > > installed and setup. I keep thinking that there's another option in the > > httpd.conf file (or other files) that I'm missing. Is that the case.. > > > > Don > > > > Starved for knowledge, fed by an OS that provides it.... not hides it!