Thanks for your help everyone...
Setting the user directory executeable (as below) seems to have done the
trick!
Tim Sutton
South Africa
> chmod +x ~user/
>
> you will need the execute bit on the users directory for the nobody user
> to get to the html_pub directory in their homedirectory
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
> > Yes, I did restart apache.Yes, I did create a default page.
> >
> > I tried chmod 711 on the dir and checked that all the files in
> the dir were 644
> > world readable. Still no go : (
> >
> > The precise error message received is:
> >
> > " Forbidden:
> >
> > You don't have permission to access /~gis on this server "
> >
> > Any more ideas?
> >
> > Tim Sutton
> > South Africa
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Tim Sutton wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am trying to set up user web dirs e.g.
> http://xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa/~username on
> > > > RH6.0 / Apache.
> > > >
> > > > I set the userdir to html_pub in srm.conf and created a
> directory (logged in as
> > > > the user) in the user's home dir called html_pub.
> > > >
> > > > When I try and browse to that dir, I get access denied
> everytime. What am I
> > > > doing wrong / what should the permissions be on html_pub?
> > >
> > > chmod 711 html_pub
> > >
> > > Browsers require the X bit on directories to enable them to
> change into
> > > the directory. You then have to set files _in_ that directory to world
> > > readable {chmod 644 file.html} so they can actually look at the files.
> > >
> > > DaZZa
> > >
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