And also check the permissions on the users home directory too:
$ ls -al ~
drwx---r-x 23 jeff jeff 4096 Jun 24 15:27 .
At 03:15 PM 6/26/00 -0700, Kurth Bemis wrote:
>At 02:54 PM 6/26/2000 -0400, csmith wrote:
>
>this is what we did at USAExpress.net
>
>drwxr-xr-x 16 kurth users 1024 Jun 13 10:05 public_html
>
>also make sure that all the files under that dir are public readable by
>doing a 'chmod 755 public_html -R'
>
>then in your www dir (/www in my case)
>
>i do 'ln -s /home/kurth/public_html kurth'
>
>try that...i suspect that it is the permissions on the page or the html dir.
>
>~kurth
>
>
>
>>my web server is serving a page ( index.html) from /home/httpd/html
>>
>>I want to set up a sym link to the directory /home/tara/html so that
>>the web server serves the index.htnml page from /home/tara/html
>>
>>No matter how I set the permissions It won't work it keep saying that I
>>don't have permission to access this page
>>
>>I am using the command ln -s /home/tara/html to set the symlink
>>/home/httpd/~html
>>
>>can any one help??
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>chris
>>
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