OK, I think I get it now. Look into the Apache documentation on
virtual hosts. You create a virtual hosts in the user's home
directory, and Apache responds to the URL request as if it was the
main machine. This is what we did for Tuxbiz. You also need to make
certain that the user's public_html directory (or other directory,
specified in the <VirtualHost> command) is world-readable and
world-executable.
Open up localhost on your machine, and get the documentation on
virtual servers at:
http://localhost/manual/vhosts/index.html
Here's our Tuxbiz virtual host in the httpd.conf file:
<VirtualHost www.tuxbiz.com>
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /home/httpd/tuxbiz
ServerName www.tuxbiz.com
ErrorLog logs/tuxbiz.com-error_log
TransferLog logs/tuxbiz.com-access_log
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/tuxbiz/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/home/httpd/tuxbiz">
AllowOverride all
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
If I understand the documentation right, the DocumentRoot can be
anywhere, including the user's home directory. However, we saw
similar errors until we set our DocumentRoot read/execute world
We have the ownership of that directory (or i do on my laptop) as
tuxbiz, and it works.
jeff
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, csmith wrote:
>
> Let me see if I can make this a little clearer:
> What I need to do is to allow the web developer access to the web site
> files via ftp so that they can change them on a regular basis.
>
> The files are being served from /etc/httpd/html
>
> what I wqant to do is move the files to the web developers home
> directory of /home/tara/html and link them with a sym link to
> /home/httpd/html so that she can ftp the changes to her home directory.
>
> Even though I have "Options FollowSymLinks"
> envoked in the access.comf file under the <Directory /home/httpd/html>
> tag
> and all of the permiossions are set to read by users owners and groups
> the web server displays the message
>
> " Access Forbidden:
> you don't have permission to access / on this
> server"
> There are NO error messages generated in the error log when this
> happens.
>
> any clarification would be appriciated
>
> thanks
>
> chris
>
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