At Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:04:13 +0100 Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 04 October 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> Am Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009 08:28:16 schrieb David Juhl: >> > so if it is read only why can't I read? >> > You don't have permission to access /~david16/ on this server >> >> Does the user that runs the server process have permissions to read from >> tha directory? >> >> Bye... >> >> Dirk > > Typically the directory would be owned by apache and the authentication on it > will be controlled by the apache htpasswd mechanism. In your case you will > need to set: > > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride All > > for each directory. The ownership of the files is less important - they can > be owned by any user/root/apache/etc... BUT the permissions on the directory > must be such so that all can access (x) and read (r) what's in it. I'm going > from memory here, so you may need to try out things until you get it to work. You also need to set USERDIR in /etc/conf.d/apache2. APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D LANGUAGE -D USERDIR" allan
