Davide, Thanks for your suggestions. However, I do have an index.html file in the public_html directory, and I'm quite sure that the permissions are set as they are supposed to be. I also do have the <Directory ... block that you suggested, as follows: <Directory /home/*/public_html> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec <Limit GET POST OPTIONS> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Limit> <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS> Order deny,allow Deny from all </LimitExcept> </Directory> Is there something wrong with this particular block? It's the one suggested for "read-only", by default. But, I still get the error as stated previously. I'm perplexed ! Hope someone can figure this out. Thanks again, John -----Original Message----- From: Davide Bianchi [mailto:davide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:28 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] access to user directories John Canderan wrote: > However, I can not get it to deliver web pages for users. I am storing > the html pages at /home/<user>/public_html, and I am quite sure that the > file permissions are set correctly. I have also set "UserDir > pubic_html" in httpd.conf. Plain text post only please, You should also have a <Directory /home/*/public_html> block detailing what you can and cannot do in there. But from your error I think that you miss an index.html file in the public html directory. Check the error_log, there should be a clearer message. Davide --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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