Hello I read the docs and tried to search the archive4s (There is no search engine on the apache archives - if there is please let me know). but I couldn't find anything that can help me with the error "You don't have permission to access". I have no problem to access the default apache page (Welcome to ...) so I assume that I have installed apache ok. The only thing I want to do with apache is to allow my users to have the web pages with authentication so I did (on /etc/http/httpd2.conf) AccessFileName .htaccess <IfModule mod_userdir.c> UserDir /var/www/users/*/public_html </IfModule> then mkdir /var/www/users/xxx/public_html. In this dir I put an index.html, .htaccess and .htpasswd ( htpasswd -c .htpasswd xxx). When I point to xx.xxx.org/~xxx, apache returns Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~xxx on this server the log shows [Fri Feb 17 19:36:34 2006] [error] [client 000000000] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/users/xxx/public_html What have I done wrong? Many thanks Ed --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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