so to clarify, you might want to chmod 750 <thedirectory> and then
chown username:www-data <your dir> . Or something similar.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Leonel Nunez dijo [Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 07:29:44PM -0700]:
>> > I use Cherokee on my laptop for some local wikis and test sites, and
>> > always had all the sites in my /home directory. So far, that worked
>> > fine. But since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, the Virtual Hosts that point
>> > to directories under my /home directory do not work anymore.
>> >
>> > If I copy one of these sites to /var/www, everything works fine, so
>> > Cherokee seems to be working properly.
>> >
>> > The only thing I changed with the new Ubuntu version was the encryption
>> > of my /home directory. Before, I did not use encryption. Could this be
>> > the reason why Cherokee cannot access any site I have in /home?
>> >
>> > And if so, is there anything I can do? I'd like to keep these sites in
>> > my /home directory, if possible.
>>
>>
>> Cherokee is running as the www-data user that's why cherokee can't access
>> your files
>>
>> so try running cherokee as your user
>
> Or rather, give the www-data user the rights to get to the directories
> in question. Try _not_ to run the server as any user with permissions
> to do anything other than what is really needed!
>
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