----- Original Message -----
From: "Soheil Noori Bushehri" <soheilnb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ users@httpd] Why userdir does not work
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:29:27 +0430
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any idea why UserDir may not work as instructed in the manual?
> That is, although there is a
>
> UserDir public_html
>
> (and it is the only userdir directive) in httpd.conf, when I try to
> access http://localhost/~soheil/, I get the error
>
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /~soheil/ on this server.
>
> The other relevant settings in httpd.conf:
>
> ...
> LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
> ...
>
> # actual userdir setting is :
> <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
> UserDir public_html
> </IfModule>
>
> # directory setting :
> <Directory /home/*/public_html>
> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
> Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> And some bash checkings:
>
> bash> ls -ld /home /home/soheil /home/soheil/public_html
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 23 18:30 /home
> drwxr-xr-x 52 soheil soheil 4096 Sep 4 16:06 /home/soheil
> drwxr-xr-x 4 soheil soheil 4096 Sep 4 00:46 /home/soheil/public_html
>
> bash> ls -la /home/soheil/public_html
> drwxr-xr-x 4 soheil soheil 4096 Sep 4 00:46 .
> drwxr-xr-x 52 soheil soheil 4096 Sep 4 17:20 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 soheil soheil 248 Sep 4 00:46 index.html
>
>
> OS is Fedora Core 4.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Soheil Noori Bushehri
> soheilnb@xxxxxxxxx
>
The usual suspect would be Selinux. Esp. if you've recently installed/upgraded. You've got to set the right context on ~/public_html so apache can read it.
Start here for selinux issues http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/
Regards
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