On Sat, Sep 29 2012, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On my new install USERDIR is not working. > > When I try http://localhost/~gottlieb, firefox says > "you don't have permission to access /~gottlieb" > and the apache error log says > "client denied by server configuration: /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html" > > The file permissions are ok since both > file:///home/gottlieb/public_html/index.html and > file:///home/gottlieb/public_html > work fine. > > So I guess I screwed up the apache install, in particular USERDIR. > > eix shows userdir (see below) > > /etc/conf.d/apache2 has it (see below, diffs = with my working install) > > I have restarted apache, shutdown the machine overnight, reinstalled > apache, but still no go. > > What step did I foolishly miss? > > thanks, > allan
Finally! I have a filesystem mounted on /local for my local files including my home directory /local/allan/gottlieb. I put in a symlink /home -> /local/allan/gottlieb so that programs looking in /home would be happy. I had /etc/passwd say /local/allan/gottlieb since it is the real directory. apache doesn't like this. There is probably an option to let it do this since it has several options on symlinks However I simply changed /etc/passwd to say /home/gottlieb and apache is happy. allan
