Just curious, did you set the user's directory?
chmod a+r /home/user
chmod a+r /home/user/public_html
those commands should make the correct dirs open
for apache to let websurfers read what is in the files.
Hope this helps
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, gene wrote:
>
> At 11:07 AM -0700 10/2/00, --mike wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have a webserver up and running on my Linux box (Mandrake 7.1).
> >My domain name is
> ><http://www.digitalpalace.net>www.digitalpalace.net I am trying to
> >give my user his own webspace like
> ><http://www.digitalpalace.net/~user>www.digitalpalace.net/~user . I
> >have copied the httpd folder in the home directory into the users
> >directory. I have also tried creating a folder called public_html
> >and putting the index.html file inside that. When I did these
> >things I get an 'access forbiden' error when I point my browser to
> >the website. I have also changed the permissions on both the
> >public_html folder and the index.html file. The only thing I can
> >think of is there is a configuration in the
> >/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file. Below is a clipping of my
> >httpd.conf file. It looks good to me.
> >
> ># UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
> ># directory if a ~user request is recieved.
> >
> >UserDir public_html
> >
>
> With that setting, http://www.digitalpalace.net/~user/index.html
> should point to /home/user/public_html/index.html. You have to make
> sure that not only is index.html world-readable, but also the
> public_html directory and the user directory.
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