Rechecking your config I note that DirectoryIndex is set but your options include -Indexes. In that case, if you do not have an index.html file, or that file is not readable by the apache process (no directory or file access), you would get error Forbidden. You do not state the permissions of /home/myuser/index.html. They should be at least 444. 1. Check the identity of the user that httpd is running as (check the value of the User directive in httpd.conf or any other *conf file) 2. do a su to that user 3. type "cat /home/myuser/index.html" If that works, then your problem remains a mystery -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 4:06 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [users@httpd] public_html does not work It might be due to not having an index.html file in your $HOME/public_html directory... -ascs --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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