[SOLVED] Problem accessing public_html in user directory.

george-lappies · 06-15-2011, 09:09 AM

Hi all

I cannot get apache to show the files in ~/public_html it gives me this error

Code:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~george/test.txt on this server.

According to the .conf file it should have read access...

unclejed613 · 06-15-2011, 09:14 AM

what about file and directory permissions?

george-lappies · 06-15-2011, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unclejed613

what about file and directory permissions?

Everybody has read and write access on that directory and recursively downwards. Should that user belong to a special group or such?

willysr · 06-15-2011, 10:04 AM

try uncommenting this line and restart Apache

Code:

# User home directories
#Include /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

george-lappies · 06-15-2011, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

try uncommenting this line and restart Apache

Code:

# User home directories
#Include /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

I did so but still no success.

ponce · 06-15-2011, 10:30 AM

your $HOME and $HOME/public_html folders should have execute permissions for group and other for letting apache being able to serve the pages traversing directories: these permissions for the two folders should make your webserver happy and should give you reasonable security

Code:

$ ls -la $HOME
total 108536
drwx--x--x 37 myuser mygroup      4096 2011-06-14 16:31 .

willysr · 06-15-2011, 06:27 PM

simply giving chmod 755 should fix your permission problem

george-lappies · 06-16-2011, 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

simply giving chmod 755 should fix your permission problem

Indeed , it solved the problem right away. I am sure ponce's solution would have worked as well I just wasn't sure how to do what he said.

thanks all who replied

audriusk · 06-16-2011, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by george-lappies

I am sure ponce's solution would have worked as well I just wasn't sure how to do what he said.

Code:

$ chmod 711 $HOME

The digits are sums of 4 (read), 2 (write), and 1 (execute). Or you can use letters:

Code:

$ chmod u=rwx,go=x $HOME

Which means that user (u) gets read (r), write (w) and execute (x) access, but group (g) and others (o) get only execute access.

man chmod has detailed explanations for all of these.

george-lappies · 06-16-2011, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by audriusk

Code:

$ chmod 711 $HOME

The digits are sums of 4 (read), 2 (write), and 1 (execute). Or you can use letters:

Code:

$ chmod u=rwx,go=x $HOME

Which means that user (u) gets read (r), write (w) and execute (x) access, but group (g) and others (o) get only execute access.

man chmod has detailed explanations for all of these.

Thanks I will have a look at chmod