what do the error logs say?
/etc/httpd/logs/error_log
might be a permision thing either on the public_html dir or the actual
html files inside the dir
my public_html dir has these perms
drwxr-xr-x
"Sang Y. Yum" wrote:
>
> How do I display web pages that I created under
> /home/user/public_html?
>
> I know httpd is running (I could connect to
> http://localhost/ and it displays the default home
> page) but when I tried to connect to
> http://localhost/~user, I get "HTTP Error 403 -
> Forbidden error".
>
> I do see this entry in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>
> # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended
> onto a user's home
> # directory if a ~user request is recieved.
>
> UserDir public_html
>
> Help!
>
> Sang
>
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> Sang Y. Yum
> San Diego, CA
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