Yep, that was it. Thanks Joshua. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Slive [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:40 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; mburkhouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] problems with userdir > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:06:03 -0500, Mike Burkhouse > <mburkhouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am having some problems with userdir that I hope you can help with. > > > > Problem: > > > > When I try to browse my home directory, I get a 403 Forbidden error: > > > > You don't have permission to access /~me/ on this server. > > > > If I try to access index.html, I get an Internal Server Error > > > > The entry in error_log is as follows: > > > > [Fri Mar 18 13:47:20 2005] [error] [client 10.0.1.1] Premature end of > script > > headers: index.html > > [Fri Mar 18 13:47:20 2005] [error] [client 10.0.1.1] File does not > exist: > > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/favicon.ico > > [Fri Mar 18 13:47:28 2005] [error] [client 10.0.1.1] attempt to invoke > > directory as script: /home/me/public_html/ > > > <Directory /home/*/public_html> > > Allow from all > > Options +Indexes > > Options ExecCGI > > SetHandler cgi-script > > </Directory> > > What is that SetHandler in there for? Its effect is to mark > everything in there as a cgi script, which obviously is not what you > want. That is the cause of the "Premature..." and "attempt to > invoke..." errors. > > For the original "forbidden" error, if it still exists after fixing > the above, make sure to check the permissions on all the parent > directories. They need to have at least global search (chmod +x). > > Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx