I'm running a default httpd install from the yum repository (Fedora 12). The user and group that starts the httpd process is "apache" (default configuration in httpd.conf). The default page is located in /var/www/html/ I have a few users on this box for whom I need to setup virtual hosts and their httpd root directory should be in their home directories, i.e. /home/somebody/www This is an example configuration for a virtual host <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName mydomain.com ServerAlias www.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /home/somebody/www/ <Files ~ "^\.ht"> </Files> <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> When I try to access any page on the virtual host, it says I do not have permission. error_logs show the following [Wed Feb 03 23:55:51 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied I changed the group of /home/sombody to "apache" by exectuing chgrp -R apache /home/somebody. What am I missing here? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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