Man, what a great bunch of experts!! My thanks goes out to James Keller,
Ramon Gandia, Mark Polsen, Mark Cinelli, Bug Hunter, Manuel Amador, and Axalon
Bloodstone for their walk throughs, hints, URL's, etc.
Bug, your modification to adduser is one I will look at if for nothing more
than the educational value of doing it. :-) I ended up doing what James and
others suggested with the 755 permissions and the /<user>/public_html
directory. It STILL didn't work -- that is until I realized that my user
account was set up as 754 or 751. Once that account was changed to 755 as
well, everything worked as prescribed.
Now another question comes up. Several messages make reference to the
httpd.conf file which I find in the /etc/httpd/conf directory. I believe it
was James who said that user webspace was probably turned on but I didn't find
any references to "webspace" or "web space" and no reference to an thing that
looked close. The other reference I saw in the posts was about "UserDir
public_html" and adding it if it wasn't already in the httpd.conf file. I
didn't find "UserDir" in the httpd.conf file. I did, however, notice that my
user accounts could access their appropropriate public_html directories with
or without the "UserDir" line. Could it be that these two lines are in the
httpd.conf file of a newer version of Apache?
Mark Cinelli provided me with the URL to the Apache Week web site so I am off
to do more reading.
Thanks again to each of you for your help.
Regards,
Ron Smith
Boise, Idaho
