I realize this may be a newbie question answered many times, but I hope it is simple and someone can give me a quick answer. We are running Apache 2.0 at our office on a Linux 2.6 system. I tried to enable UserDir by modifying the httpd.conf file. I followed the instructions found in the file by changing the UserDir entry to "public_html" in the IfModule mod_userdir.c section. Then I uncommented the example Directory section just below it (which enables /home/*/public_html access). We haven't yet set up a "default" web page for the server under /var/www/html, but I don't see why that should be a problem (I could be wrong). After shutting down Apache and restarting it, we still get a: ----------- Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~jmclaughlin on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at swmpu Port 80 ------------ I have verified that the apache user can read all the files in ~jmclaughlin/public_html, so that isn't a problem. What other reason could there be? Chris Carlson iStor Networks, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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