I installed FC6 three days ago as a clean install, and transferred all my data from the old FC4 that I had been running. Everything was going fine until today I messed with the selinux settings and now I get 403 errors everytime I try to open pages in either /var/www/html or in ~/public_html

I have had issues with selinux before and got around it simply by disabling it, but nothing I do today makes any difference. I have tried it with the firewall on and off, with selinux on and off, and with permissive and enforcing policies.

This is the current version of /etc/selinux/config and I am still getting the 403s:

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - SELinux is fully disabled.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are:
# targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
# strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

# SETLOCALDEFS= Check local definition changes
SETLOCALDEFS=0

I have reset the file permissions and ownerships, httpd.conf is ok and I have rebooted several times just for good measure

What else could be causing this?

Everything was going fine until today I messed with the selinux settings
So, what did you change then?

I got it working, and it was a permissions issue, although I dont know why it is behaving this way.

The httpd.conf file states:
That was exactly what I had. Today I changed my home directory to 755 and voila, its working

And another thing - using konquerer in superuser mode, my home directory has a different icon (with a little red circle on the folder) to the standard folder icon. Something odd going on here...