Just a stylistic note, I'm a great believer in the "find" command, but in this case I believe it is more readable to do something like this:
# First, make sure the home directory is traversable by all users chmod a+x /home/somebody # Then, make sure NO files are executable under /home/somebody/www [equivalent to chmod -R 644 /home/somebody/www] # *** side effect--this temporarily makes all directories non-traversable, we'll fix that in a moment chmod -R u=rw,go=r /home/somebody/www # finally, re-enable directory traversal in /home/somebody/www and below chmod -R a+X /home/somebody/www For those not familiar, the symbolic "X" argument to chmod has the following semantics: it will always make directories traversable. It will make files executable if and only if at least one executable bit was already set in the file's permissions. --Pete -----Original Message----- From: Philip Wigg [mailto:p...@philipwigg.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:48 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] Help needed to set correct permissions On 4 February 2010 14:34, Perl Whore <whorep...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm still getting the permission error. > > [Thu Feb 04 06:47:11 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission > denied: access to / denied > [Thu Feb 04 07:29:05 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission > denied: access to /test.htm denied > [Thu Feb 04 07:29:08 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission > denied: access to /favicon.ico denied The following should work:- chmod +x /home/somebody chmod g+rx /home/somebody/www find /home/somebody/www -type f | xargs chmod 644 I didn't set /home/somebody as executable earlier so maybe that was it. > Also, I took a look at mod_userdir and it says the URLs will be like > http://example.com/~user/ which is not what I'm looking to do. My > users have their own domains. Fair enough. You could look at mod_vhost alias if you have a lot of users to set up. Cheers, Phil. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
