I know this is a vERY common problem but after 3 hours of googling I still can't find a fix. I have two Slackware machines. On my pc I installed apache using a package from linuxpackages.net and everything is working fine. On my server I installed the latest version from source I obtained from Apache's site. For the life of me I cannot get mysite.com/~user to work on the server (works for the pc). What in the world did the precompiled package do to make it work. The two setups are almost identical with the exception one installed from source, the other from package. I have even chmod -R 777 my user's directory and it still doesn't work, so I don't think it can be a permission's problem. I have tried placing an index.html and leaving the public_html folder blank in that user's directory. Here is the attached httpd.conf

http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~ermcgrat/httpd.conf

And the userdir.conf

http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~erm...d-userdir.conf

When I added the LoadModule line to my httpd.conf the server will not start and says it is a built-in module. This has to work, I can not think of any alternatives to get around a non-working userdir directive. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks

First off, you have the "Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf" line commented out. So any changes you made to it were ignored anyway. You have the <Directory /home/*/public_html> portion defined twice in your httpd.conf, I'd suggest removing both of them because the httpd-userdir.conf is all you need. Try your hand at fixing that and hopefully something becomes clear as to why it isn't working. The best of luck to you.

Oh man you're a life saver! Thanks so much, I never noticed the Include statements. After uncommenting that line and removing all my UserDir stuff in httpd.conf everything works!