user web pages.

The default home directory settings on RedHat are 700, which means that
only the owner can see what's in it, or any of it's subdirectories.
This includes the public_html subdirectory. To make the public_html
directory available to the web server, you have to give everyone some
minimal access to your home directory, e.g. 701, I believe. This is a
security risk, because then you have to keep track of the permissions on
all your subdirs to make sure nobody can get to them. Personally, I
keep a subdirectory in /home/httpd with each user having a directory
there. If you make a symlink in your home directory, it's not any less
convenient, either.

-BVG

Don Harrop wrote:
>
> 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
>
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