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Hi all, this is very frustrating to figure out. Im trying to setup UserDir on my apache server so my other users can have pages of their own. But its not working.

I read this page and its not explaining correctly. What ive done so far is the below shown.

First i edited httpd-userdir.conf and replaced some of the config like so.

Code:

UserDir enabled user

UserDir disabled root

But when i open my browser to http://mysite.com/~user I get a forbidden error telling me i cant access it. Can any please explain thoroughly what im doing wrong? Thanx in advance!

In addition to what you did above, you also need to do

Code:

$chmod 755 /home/$USER

$mkdir /home/$USER/public_html

$chmod 755 /home/$USER/public_html

If you use a Red Hat based distro and have selinux enabled, you may need to do

Code:

#chcon -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/$USER/public_html

Ugh!!!, do i do this as root or as the user? Because i did it as root and nothing is changed as far as i can see.

When i did those chmod commands i noticed inside the file httpd-userdir.conf there was this section.

Code:

#

# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example

# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.

#

<Directory /home/*/public_html>

    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes

    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec

    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>

        Order allow,deny

        Allow from all

    </Limit>

    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>

        Order deny,allow

        Deny from all

    </LimitExcept>

</Directory>

The access denied problem was solved, but now its still not working. Does this section i pasted need to be edited? Also, is there a place where i can _read_ about this that actually makes _sense_ ? Thanx in advance!

Nevermind, i sorted it out.