You probably haven't set up a directory statement for the home dirs. Something like: <Directory "/home/*/public_html"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> -----Original Message----- From: kris duff [mailto:t_dufff@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 11:25 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Forbidden access to userdir Hi I installed the latest apache version (2.2.6). I used the default httpd.conf file except for the userdir directory which is include the file extra/httpd-userdir.conf I can access the "main website" from /[..]/apache/htdocs but when I put the http://[..]/~my_user I received on my browser : FORBIDDEN You don't have permission to access /~my_user on this server. On the access_log I can see the following message : [...] "GET /~my_user HTTP/1.1" 403 207 And the error_log : [...] (13)Permission denied: access to /~my_user denied my index.html has 777 root.root as privilege and the "." has 777 my_user.my_user of privilege I installed apache from source using the following command : ./configure \ --with-expat=builtin \ --prefix=/usr/local/apache \ --enable-shared=max \ --enable-module=rewrite \ --enable-module=so \ make ; make install Everything seems good for me, so I'm looking for some help or advice to resolve this issue. Thank you a lot Kris Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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