It might be due to not having an index.html file in your $HOME/public_html directory... -ascs -----Original Message----- From: alfredo [mailto:orazio.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:43 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] public_html does not work Hello, I'm trying to allow users to have their own home pages on a server (Linux Mandrake 9.1 with Apache 2). So: 1) I made a public_html dir in /home/myuser and I put there a index.html file. 2) I set permission on directories like this: $myuser chmod 701 /home/myuser $myuser chmod 755 /home/myuser/public_html 3) In httpd2.conf the following line is uncommeted: LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so 4) In commonhttpd.conf the directives: UserDir and DyrectoryIndex are uncommented and set as default. 5) Also the following lines in the same file are uncommented and leaved as default : <Directory /home/*/public_html> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Limit> <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND> Order deny,allow Deny from all </LimitExcept> </Directory> and <Directory /home/*/public_html> AllowOverride All Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks <IfModule mod_access.c> Order allow,deny Allow from all </IfModule> </Directory> and <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin> Options +ExecCGI -Includes -Indexes SetHandler cgi-script <IfModule mod_access.c> Order allow,deny Allow from all </IfModule> </Directory> 5) I looked at the guide of apache site and other tutorials on line. Actually when i write in the browser: http://www.mydomain.com/~myuser/ i receive this message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~myuser/ on this server. I don't know how to do, I'm newbie and self-taught and need to be a bit tutored. Tnx Alfredo Cosco (Italy) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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