Hi All,

apache provides the facility to access user's home directory through
URL. For that I have done the following configuration in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf .

# UserDir disable (commented in httpd conf file)

UserDir public_html

After that I have created the public_html directory under user's home directory.

But when I try to access the URL , www.example.com/~user, it is giving 403 forbidden error.
The log file is splashing the following error.
"""

[Wed Apr 18 14:28:40 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.25] (13)Permission denied: access to /~zaman denied

"""

I change the ownership of public_html directory to
apache.apache .

But even though it is not working.

Please somebody guide me in correcting the problem.


With thanks.

You need to give your home and public_html directories, 755 permissions(don't change ownership to apache like you did above). So you would do
If you use selinux, you have to also do

You need to give your home and public_html directories, 755 permissions(don't change ownership to apache like you did above). So you would do
chmod 755 /home/user1
chmod 755 /home/user1/public_html


Thanks . It is working.
But I feel there is a security issue there. With the 755 permissions
, anybody can do "cd" to my home directory and "execute " the executables.

So, I feel that that solution is workable but you are opening
a security hole.


With Thanks.

I got a fix of the problem.
I tried with the following permissions.

chmod 701 /home/zaman
chmod 701 /home/zaman/public_html
chmod 704 /home/zaman/public_html/index.html


I think that is safe and it is also working.

With Thanks.