On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mr. Moolji wrote:
> I just cant get it to serve up documents from /root/xyz inspite of giving
> full access to
> the directory.
If I read this correctly, you're trying to serve documents from /root/xyz/
For one thing, you shouldn't be serving anything uot of /root.
But if you must, make /root chmod o+x.
> If I give an Alias where the data directory is under
> /usr/local/apache, I can view the directory, but when I click on
> index.html it gives me an error. (BTW index.html is set as the default
> document)
Which error?
> Also if I create public_html direcory under my home directory and try
> to access /~user, I get an error saying that I dont have permission to
> access /~user (BTW It does not give me a document not found error).
> But I have the default setting for /*/public_html also set in the
> <Directory> tag.
I had the same problem this evening, AmitC solved it. the /home/user dir
must be o+x.
If anyone else has better suggestions, please post them.
--
Satya.
Freelance website designer and CGI/Perl programmer.
http://satyaonline.cjb.net/
