[SQL] Alternate Database Locations

[Brian C. Doyle]

Hello,

I am working on seting up alternate database locations for my users.
I have done

% initlocation /home/userid
% createdb -D /home/userid userid

and i always get

ERROR:  The database path '/home/httpd/jbbent' is invalid. This may be due 
to a character that is not allowed or because the chosen path isn't 
permitted for databases

I have done both of these as the user and as postgres I have had the dir 
chmod to 777 and still nothing.  what am I doing wrong?