[ale] apache ~user pages

[Jay Finch]

At 11:56 AM 11/27/1998 -0500, Gary S. MacKay wrote:
>I'm running RedHat 5.2 and have Apache installed and working fine. I'd like
>to enable the ~username personal pages now. I've checked the srm.conf file
>and it is using the public_html directory structure. I then created the
>directory off of my user dir and stuck a test page in it. When I try to log
>onto that page I get a "...permission denied..." error. I have chmod 755'ed
>the directory and still no luck. What am I missing?
At 11:56 AM 11/27/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm running RedHat 5.2 and have Apache installed and working fine. I'd like
>to enable the ~username personal pages now. I've checked the srm.conf file
>and it is using the public_html directory structure. I then created the
>directory off of my user dir and stuck a test page in it. When I try to log
>onto that page I get a "...permission denied..." error. I have chmod 755'ed
>the directory and still no luck. What am I missing?

	Apache, in my experience, is easy to use but sometimes tricky to implement.

Lemme check my SRM, HTTPD, and ACCESS.CONF files...

Hrm -- A quick question:  Do you have your /home/username directory set to
chmod 711 ???

Here's a sample:  (replace horus with your username, and if you're not
using /home, replace that too)

larp:/home/horus# chmod 711 .
larp:/home/horus/public_html# chmod 755 .

If that doesn't work, then wherever your DocumentRoot is set to, make sure
you have the following line in your access.conf:  (Ex: /home/sample is my
DocumentRoot)

<Directory /home/sample>
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes All
AllowOverride All
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from none
</Directory>

You can change the Options as you see fit, this is just a sample configuration.

Hope this helps!

Cheers!
Jay
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