web page of each of the student

prabhatsoni · 10-11-2010, 05:05 AM

Dear friends,

I have a situation here.
Suppose there are 35 students in my class, and I am thinking of allowing each of them to host a web page, with full control to edit or add/delete the content - something like the below:

For Susan : http://localhost/Susan
For Jack : http://localhost/Jack
etc. etc.,

I am running apache web server with root directory as /var/www/html. Thus for each user a subdirectory in /var/www/html can be created. Now how can we give each of the users access to his or her directory.
Would we be required to create system accounts for each of them ?
Further, allowing them to add content to their directory would perhaps require some sort of ftp attangement ?

I think I am groping in dark.

Can any one guide me in this endeavour ?

Thanks in advance.

Prabhat Soni

acid_kewpie · 10-11-2010, 05:08 AM

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_userdir.html

prabhatsoni · 10-14-2010, 12:56 AM

Sir,
This is driving me crazy. It should work, but on accessing "http://localhost/~guest/index.html" I keep getting

Quote:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~guest/index.html on this server.

Even after increasing the log level in httpd.conf to "debug", I get only this log entry:

Quote:

[Thu Oct 14 02:04:58 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /~guest/index.html denied

Now for the configuration:
/home/guest has permissions of 711.
/home/guest/public_html has the permission of 775.
/home/guest/public_html/index.html has permissions of 664.

And in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, I have

Quote:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
#
# UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence
# of a username on the system (depending on home directory
# permissions).
#
#UserDir disabled

# To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html
# directory, remove the "UserDir disabled" line above, and uncomment
# the following line instead:
#
UserDir public_html

</IfModule>

I still don't know why I am getting "FORBIDDEN ....."

Please help.

Prabhat Soni

mecelec415 · 10-14-2010, 09:19 PM

why not look at a content mangament system like word press or simular
http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

jefro · 10-15-2010, 03:40 PM

Host headers?

prabhatsoni · 10-15-2010, 11:38 PM

Sir,
Would you please be a little elaborate.

Prabhat Soni

prabhatsoni · 10-20-2010, 05:34 AM

Hello,
It seems my message has somehow escaped attention.
So, here I'm; once again making a request for help.

Thanks in advance.

Prabhat Soni

DotHQ · 11-07-2010, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Now for the configuration:
/home/guest has permissions of 711.
/home/guest/public_html has the permission of 775.
/home/guest/public_html/index.html has permissions of 664.

Is the 711 a typeo? I tried to chmod to 711 on my Linux server and it failed.
Try making the permissions 755 for /home/guest and see if that helps.

ie: chmod 755 /home/guest

prabhatsoni · 11-08-2010, 02:24 AM

No it is not a typo.
And it is not working even after the change in the said permissions to 0755. In fact, it is the same "permission denied to ..."

Prabhat Soni

prabhatsoni · 11-08-2010, 06:17 AM

Ok folks, I have solved this.

It was selinux issue after all.
I changed selinux policy to "permissive" from "enforcing", and I am able to access the users' home directory.

Prabhat Soni

acid_kewpie · 11-08-2010, 07:02 AM

whoops, read that response wrong. ignore.

prabhatsoni · 11-09-2010, 03:30 AM

Ok friends, but now the problem is "how to make it work with the selinux policy being at 'enforcing' instead of 'permissive'.

It was indicated in the selinux warning concerning this access (to the web page) that the context should be "httpd_user_content_t" in place of "user_home_t". Even after incorporation of this change (and rebooting) it was same - "permission denided....".

Any help friends ?

Prabhat Soni