>Number: 3712 >Category: config >Synopsis: Default configuration in httpd.conf has minor error for user >home directory directive. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 18 11:30:03 PST 1999 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.4 >Environment: Linux eclectic 2.0.34 #1 Thu Jun 11 12:56:23 EDT 1998 i586 unknown gcc 2.7.2.3 >Description: In the default httpd.conf file, there is a section which is commented out:
#<Directory /*/public_html> # AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec # <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND> # Order allow,deny # Allow from all # </Limit> # <Limit PUT DELETE PATCH PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK> # Order deny,allow # Deny from all # </Limit> #</Directory> the problem is that the "/*/public_html" needs to be "/*/*/public_html" for most sites (where the userdir directories are /home/user/public_html) ... >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Change "/*/public_html" to "/*/*/public_html", or do either locationmatch or directorymatch to handle the default /home/user/userdir configuration. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
