I'd imagine that this is a normal *NIX thing.. just following permissions then again, I wonder what would happen if you ran Apache as the root user.. Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Harrop" To: Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 12:30 PM Subject: Re: user web pages. > 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! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >