Are the permissions for the directories you want people to be able to
access world readable? This is necessary otherwise only the owner of
the parent directory will be able to see anything in it.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
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Sent: November 22, 1999 12:29 PM
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Subject: [newbie] Apache/public_html
Hi, all --
I am the one who needed to allow users to ftp various web documents to
their home directories and then have them visible on
the web. Several of you answered me that one should put these web
documents into the public_html directory and to be sure
that the UserDir public_html statement existed in the httpd.conf file.
Well, I did this. Users have public_html directories on their home
directories, and these directories have html stuff in them.
But when I try to go to the directory, I get the "Forbidden" message.
Clearly the directory exists, and there is html there. But I
can't see it.
I suspect that there is some configuration step that needs to be done in
order to tell the browser that the "public_html"
directory is, in fact, public. Can anybody advise me what it is?
Thanks.
Cheers,
pete
Pete Clapham
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio, 44115
Phone: [216] 697-4820
Fax: [216] 523-7175
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