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" <mchung@asu.edu>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
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" <don@nis4u.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> 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!