On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Timothy Bolz wrote:
> I'm running Debian 3.0 and I'm trying to set up a webpage in my home
> directory /home/timothy/public_html/index.html but when I try to access it
> with http://localhost/~timothy/ it gives me a Forbidden You don't have
> permission to access /~timothy/public_html/newindex.html on this server. I
> set the permissions on /public_html as drwxr-xr-x. There is nothing on the
> Debian localhost page which says how to do this all it say is " * User
> directories are enabled, and user documents will be looked for in the
> public_html directory of the users' homes. These dirs should be under /home,
> and users will not be able to symlink to files they don't own.". There is
> nothing on how to make it accesible. Do I need to add something to
> /etc/groups?
You shouldn't.
take a peek through the httpd.conf file
and look at the section that starts
# UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>
the default debian is set to allow read-only access to ~/public_html
what is showing up in the apache logs?
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
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