Hello! As far as I know, changing *only* ~smd/public_html to 755 should be sufficient. Changing your home directory to readable/executable by all is not very private unless you're on a machine that has only one user. :)
-Chris On 2011-11-21, at 9:14 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: > Try changing permissions on the smd directory (and smd/public_html if > necessary) with 'chmod 755 smd', provided you're willing to let all users > read the smd directory. > > Steven Yellin > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Dr. Sunil M. Dogra wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Thank you for reply, >> >> >> I changed /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf accordingly but still have permission >> problem. Any help ? >> >> drwx--x--x 56 smd smd 4096 Nov 19 12:18 smd >> >> #UserDir disable >> >> UserDir public_html >> >> that means it should look for /home/smd/public_html/index.html >> >> but even then It gave following error >> Forbidden >> >> You don't have permission to access /~smd/ on this server. >> >> With Best Regards >> sunil >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Steven J. Yellin >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> See comments and other lines around every reference to "UserDir" in >>> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. >>> >>> Steven Yellin >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Dr. Sunil M. Dogra wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> May be a easy question. >>>> >>>> I have web-server and now would like to create users so that they have >>>> personal pages like >>>> >>>> http://www.myserver.com/~user >>>> >>>> Please suggest ? >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> With best Regards >>>> sunil >>>> >>>> >>
