> -----Original Message----- > From: John Canderan [mailto:dcbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Montag, 30. Mai 2005 15:54 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] access to user directories > > > Owen, > Thanks very much for your detailed suggestions. However, I have > suspected unix permissions to be the problem from the very > beginning, and > believe that I have them set correctly, as I mentioned early on. > Let me try and show them to you, starting with the "home" dir: > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 25 13:20 home > > drwxr-xr-x 30 canderan canderan 4096 May 29 00:52 canderan > > drwxr-xr-x 3 canderan canderan 4096 May 27 06:04 public_html > > drwxrwxr-x 2 canderan canderan 4096 May 25 13:03 crap > -rw-r--r-- 1 canderan canderan 49 May 25 09:40 index.html Well they *look* OK, but the problem is definately unix permissions so you need to dig deeper: - did you check that point Joshua raised about SELinux? - is /home/canderan a physical disk on the web server? - if you login as the apache user, can you list/open the files in /home/canderan? - if you run apache as user "canderan", does it work? - if you do something like: Alias /testurl /home/canderan/public_html then hit http://yourserver/testurl, do you see the dir? You've basically got to try all the angles to see if anything turns on the light... Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. PS - in each of the above, please report (ie, cut'n'paste) the exact error message returned by the browser, the shell or found in the logfile. > > (the dir "crap" and the file "index.html" are in the public_html dir) > > Could there possibly be something with these permissions that > is causing the > problem? Now, let me also say that the files in > /var/www/html (the web dir > for the box) can be accessed from the Internet, no problem, > and I notice > that the permissions for those dirs and files are relatively > the same as I > have for the user dirs and files as shown above. > > Having thought that the permissions were set correctly, I > have been focusing > on possible problems with the httpd.conf file. Have tried > everything that > anyone has suggested there, with no luck ! > > Thanks again, > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 3:54 AM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] access to user directories > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Canderan [mailto:dcbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Freitag, 27. Mai 2005 17:20 > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] access to user directories > > > > > > Here's "cut and paste" from the error_log file: > > [Fri May 27 06:42:33 2005] [error] [client 66.92.146.208] > > (13)Permission > > denied: access to /~canderan denied > > > > That's all I'm getting ! > > That's actually tons.... > > The browser gets a 403 Forbidden when either of *two* apache > errors occur: > 1) "client denied by server configuration": caused by a "Deny from" > directive in apache config. > 2) "Permission denied": caused by insufficient Unix access privileges. > > Not that *neither* contains the string "access denied", so I > hope you now > realise why it is essential to cut'n'paste error messages and > not to try to > type them in from memory. > > So now go and fix the unix permissions and all will be well. > > [hint: I suppose /~canderan points to your home directory, so > check that it > is executable and readable by others (eg, 755), or if you > don't want to > allow that, put you and apache in the same group and make it > executable and > readable by group (eg, 750) or whatever]. > > Rgds, > Owen Boyle > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 6:59 AM > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] access to user directories > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: John Canderan [mailto:dcbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: Freitag, 27. Mai 2005 12:50 > > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] access to user directories > > > > > > > > > I've checked it quite a few times...........it just says "access > > > denied", that's all ...........nothing specific to go on ! > > > > Isn't it more like: "client denied by server configuration... > > etc"? Please > > cut'n'paste the *exact* line. > > > > Sorry to put you out, but the exact wording is important and > > can distinguish > > several possible causes. > > > > Rgds, > > Owen Boyle > > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx] > > > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 6:41 AM > > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] access to user directories > > > > > > You must've missed the line in David's original response: > > > > > > > Check the error_log, there should be a clearer message. > > > > > > So what does it say? > > > > > > Rgds, > > > Owen Boyle > > > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may > be ignored. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: John Canderan [mailto:dcbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > > > Sent: Freitag, 27. Mai 2005 12:09 > > > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] access to user directories > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. 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