Re: New Directory Issue

Scott Hughes <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:44:11 -0500

I did use the userdir directive.  Now if I access the area like this: 

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~username/usage/  it does display the content.  

If I try to use the more direct: http:www.domainname.com/usage  I get 

the forbidden error again.

Thanks,

Scott

Craig Dunigan wrote:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Scott Hughes wrote:

All,

Thanks in advance for any answer to this very newbie type of question.

I have a server running Apache v. 2.0.52 and using all virtual 

directories. The virtual directories are under the users home 

directory as such: /home/username/www

The issue that I having is that when a new directory is created by 

the user under the 'www' it gives a 403 Forbidden error.

The virtual directory directive is like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.xxxxxxxxx.cim
  DocumentRoot /home/username/www
  <Directory "/home/username/www">
      AllowOverride All
      Options All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Scott

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It's very likely that the Apache user does not have permissions to the 

newly created directories.  See:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/faq/error.html#error.permissiondenied

and

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html, which details 

what you probably should be using instead of the scheme you now have.

Here's a hint in case you don't want to use UserDir:  "man umask."  Be 

careful, though, this can have unintended consequences!

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