On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:37:22PM -0600, Timothy Bolz wrote:
> I found the solution after search the web.  The one site said I have to have 
> chmod o+x ~ of my home directory.
> It worked and now the webpages come up.  Maybe someone can enlighten me on 
> why this worked. Wouldn't this be a security breach if anyone can execute 
> code?
Tim, apache runs as the www-data user on debian.  If your home directory
is 700 no user except for root and yourself can look or cd into it.
Thus they cannot access ~/public_html

Cory
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