> > What permissions do you have on your home-directory? If you have it > > so that no users besides your own have permissions to enter it (i.e. > > ~ = rwx------) apache won't be able to access ~/public_html either. > > You'll have to set at least x-permissions for all users to your > > home-directory(rwx--x--x) for it to work... > > If you are paranoid about security then keep every user on your system > in the same group, and only allow world access to your home directory. > I know, sounds odd, but because other users are members of the same > group they will be denied access on a group basis before the system > even gets to checking world access. > Execute permissions on a directory will allow a user into that > directory, but will not allow them to see the files in it!
But apache don't need to see the files in ~ since it already knows it should go into ~/public_html. So x-permissions should be sufficient. -- Public key id: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at search.keyserver.net[:11371]
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