Hi,
Thanks for offering a better solution.
Venkatesh
--- A V Flinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 17 February 2001 01:38, you wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Please ignore my earlier (trivial) question.
> > The problem arose because the
> > users home and public_html
> > directories did not have search permission.
> > This has now been fixed.
> >q
>
> That is one way to fix the problem. I don't
> particulary like that method
> since other user's on the box can then browse the
> home directory of the
> webuser.
>
> I prefer the following solution, as it prevents
> browsing of a user's home
> directory. This is done by changinh the default user
> directory in apache,
> and giving users a link to a subdirectory within
> something owned by
> apache.
>
> change UserDir in httpd.conf to /home/httpd/
>
> create a directory in /home/httpd/ for each web user
>
> chown $USER:$USER /home/httpd/$USER
> chmod 755 /home/httpd/$USER
>
> ln -s /home/httpd/$USER /home/$USER/public_html
> chown $USER:$USER /home/$USER/public_html
> chmod 700 /home/$USER/public_html
>
>
>
>
> > >
> > > While using Apache 1.3.14 on Mandrake7.2,
> > > I am getting permission error when
> > > I try to access a html document in the
> > > users public_html directory.
> > >
> > > To explain the situation in more detail;
> > >
> > > I created a public_html directory in
> > > the /home/username directory and created a
> > > index.html
> > > document within it.
> > >
> > > I try to access the page with
> > > http://localhost/~username and get the
> "Forbidden"
> > > error. The error_log does not show any errors.
> > >
> > > I can only access the page by changing the owner
> of
> > > /home/username and /home/username/public.html
> > > to the user ID of the web server.
> > >
> > > How can I have the user's web page accessed
> without
> > > changing the ownership of the users home and
> > > public_html driectories.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Venkatesh
> > >
> > >
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