RESOLVED. Thank you for the reply. My users have different home directory paths that do not all originate from the /home so (in my case) from error you can see in the original post my /users4 is not true for all users, some are /users and others /users5. I wasn't sure how to handle that and tried several different things but adding a wild card for each directory in the path seemed to do the trick. Here is what mine looks like now: <Directory "/*/*/*/public_html"> Options ExecCGI Indexes FollowSymlinks AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes # AddHandler cgi-script .py .cgi .pl # Require method GET POST OPTIONS Require all granted Just posting this for anyone that might search google to find and answer for. This is different from 2.2 where /*/public_html worked for the entire user directory path. Sincerely, Doug Tucker On 07/20/2015 09:28 AM, Marat Khalili wrote: > Hello, > > According to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#directory : >> None of the wildcards match a `/' character, so |<Directory >> "/*/public_html">| will not match |/home/user/public_html|, but >> |<Directory "/home/*/public_html">| will match. > > > -- > > With Best Regards, > Marat Khalili > > > On 20/07/15 17:11, Tucker, Doug wrote: >> I'm at my wits end. This same configuration works fine on our old >> apache 2.2. I have read through the documentation for 2.4 and searched >> far and wide but cannot seem to solve this. >> >> I'm running out of the box apache that came with centos 7. >> >> selinux is disabled >> >> Main virtual host setting in the main httpd.conf is: >> >> <VirtualHost 129.119.119.207:80> >> ServerAdminenoc@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" >> ServerName neodev.seas.smu.edu >> DirectoryIndex index.php index.shtml index.html index.htm >> <Directory "/var/www/html"> >> Options Includes FollowSymLinks >> AllowOverride All >> Require all granted >> </Directory> >> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" >> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> >> AllowOverride None >> Options ExecCGI >> Require all granted >> </Directory> >> ErrorLog logs/neodev-seas-smu-edu-error_log >> CustomLog logs/neodev-seas-smu-edu-access_log combined >> </VirtualHost> >> >> >> My userdir.conf looks like this: >> >> <IfModule mod_userdir.c> >> # >> # UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence >> # of a username on the system (depending on home directory >> # permissions). >> # >> UserDir disabled root >> >> # >> # To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html >> # directory, remove the "UserDir disabled" line above, and uncomment >> # the following line instead: >> # >> UserDir public_html >> </IfModule> >> >> # >> # Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example >> # for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only. >> # >> <Directory "/*/public_html/cgi-bin"> >> Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec ExecCGI >> AllowOverride None >> Require all granted >> </Directory> >> >> Scripts placed in /var/www/cgi-bin work, scripts placed in an user >> directory/cgi-bin do not. The apache logs says this: >> >> Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: >> /users4/enoc/tuckerd/public_html/cgi-bin/doug.py >> >> The directory is 755. >> >> I don't know how more to enable with than with the ExecCGI directive in >> Options. I did try putting the + before each directive but the result >> was the same. Can anyone please shed some light on what I'm missing? >> Again this exact same configuration (with the exception of the Require >> all granted being the old style Allow,deny stuff) works just fine on our >> apache 2.2. >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx