You don't have permission to access /~username on this server.

sijolinux · 05-08-2005, 06:37 AM

I'm trying to set up a home web server and have different accounts installed. This is proving to be more of a challenge than I first though.

Just installed linux last Sunday

Have the following installed on my machine: Fedora core 3. I 've no firewall as this machine is on a LAN, SElinux is switched off.

Apache is running ok when you type localhost or IP address of the server

Managed to install webmin, no problems

Problem is in that I can not view the new user accounts that I create.

The user" john" has a chmod of 755 and so does the directories underneath it, however when type the local IP of the machine 192.xxx.x.x/~john, I get the error.

I completely at a stand still.

Any suggestions please

rjlee · 05-08-2005, 07:28 AM

1) Make sure that john has a /home/john/public_html directory, at that this is both world-readable and world-executable:

Code:

ls -l /home/john/public_html

This code should give three 'r's and three 'x'es.

2) Make sure that UserDir is set to public_html in your config file.

3) Check what error is reported in /var/log/httpd/error_log when you try to access the file.

Edit: 4) Also make sure that the public_html directory contains an index.html file that is also world-readable (three 'r's with ls -l).

patitoconejita · 01-03-2008, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjlee

1) Make sure that john has a /home/john/public_html directory, at that this is both world-readable and world-executable:

Code:

ls -l /home/john/public_html

This code should give three 'r's and three 'x'es.

2) Make sure that UserDir is set to public_html in your config file.

3) Check what error is reported in /var/log/httpd/error_log when you try to access the file.

Edit: 4) Also make sure that the public_html directory contains an index.html file that is also world-readable (three 'r's with ls -l).

Hi, I'm encountering the same issue with apache2, under Debian unstable. I had initially wanted to set up apache with SSL (apache-ssl package) and DAV module (via the libapache2-svn package), but later removed the apache-ssl package to get started (I'll enable SSL later). The public_html directoy is world-readable and executable, and contains index.html, yet the error still occurs. I can see that /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf has the following:

Code:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir disabled root
UserDir "WWW"

<Directory "/home/*/WWW">
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Limit
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
SSLRequireSSL 
Dav on
</Directory>
</IfModule>

despite having removed the apache-ssl package. That SSLRequireSSL directive is suspicious; why is it there despite no apache-ssl being installed? Thanks for any tips.

lopoetve · 01-03-2008, 04:58 PM

can you all get to the normal, root of the system? Such as: http://IPADDY/?

patitoconejita · 01-03-2008, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lopoetve

can you all get to the normal, root of the system? Such as: http://IPADDY/?

Yes, that works fine.

I solved the issue by removing/purging apache2 and reinstalling it. I reconfigured everything in webmin and now /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir looks like:

Code:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir disabled root
UserDir "WWW"

<Directory "/home/*/WWW">
                AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
                Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
</Directory>
</IfModule>

and can access the user directories just fine. Now I'm on to setting up the subversion directory.

lopoetve · 01-03-2008, 05:19 PM

Sounds like it was a config issue in Apache then. You might have deleted a bracket on part of the permissions config section without meaning to. Good luck!