user web pages.

[Marc Chung]

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