mapping user's home directory to URL using apache.

Hi All,

apache provides the facility to access user's home directory through
URL. For that I have done the following configuration in /etc/httpd/
conf/httpd.conf .

# UserDir disable (commented in httpd conf file)

UserDir public_html

After that I have created the public_html directory under user's home
directory.

But when I try to access the URL , www.example.com/~user, it is giving
403 forbidden error.
The log file is splashing the following error.
"""

[Wed Apr 18 14:28:40 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.25]
(13)Permission denied: access to /~zaman denied

"""

I change the ownership of public_html directory to
apache.apache .

But even though it is not working.

Please somebody guide me in correcting the problem.


With thanks.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> apache provides the facility to access user's home directory through
> URL. For that I have done the following configuration in /etc/httpd/
> conf/httpd.conf .
>
> # UserDir disable (commented in httpd conf file)
>
> UserDir public_html
>
> After that I have created the public_html directory under user's home
> directory.
>
> But when I try to access the URL , www.example.com/~user, it is giving
> 403 forbidden error.
> The log file is splashing the following error.
> """
>
> [Wed Apr 18 14:28:40 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.25]
> (13)Permission denied: access to /~zaman denied
>
> """
>
> I change the ownership of public_html directory to
> apache.apache .
>
> But even though it is not working.
>
> Please somebody guide me in correcting the problem.
>
>
> With thanks.

Hi

Probably:

chmod a+x ~zaman
chmod -R a+rX ~zaman/public_html

What you are missing is the effect of the first chmod I suspect.

HTH

Tim

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> [Wed Apr 18 14:28:40 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.25]
> (13)Permission denied: access to /~zaman denied
>
> """
>
> I change the ownership of public_html directory to
> apache.apache .
>
> But even though it is not working.

Is SELinux butting in and preventing the access?


--
Paul

On Apr 18, 1:57 am, query.c...@gmail.com wrote:

> But when I try to access the URL ,www.example.com/~user, it is giving
> 403 forbidden error.
> The log file is splashing the following error.
> """

> [Wed Apr 18 14:28:40 2007] [error] [client 172.16.16.25]
> (13)Permission denied: access to /~zaman denied
>
> """

Okay, so the problem is the permissions on /~zaman

> I change the ownership of public_html directory to
> apache.apache .

Umm, why? The problem was with /~zaman (Plus, that's just wrong. For
one thing, a normal user doesn't have permissions to do that. For
another thing, there's no reason to have user pages that users can't
manage.)

DS