public_html not working

[David Sanders]

I am using Fedora Core 3 and cannot get apache to serve the user's public_html 
directory.  I only receive a "403 Forbidden" message.  I have the user 
directory permissions at 711 and public_html at 755.

In httpd.conf I have:
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

Any help would be appreciated.
David

[thomas cameron]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 11:48 -0500, David Sanders wrote:
> I am using Fedora Core 3 and cannot get apache to serve the user's public_html 
> directory.  I only receive a "403 Forbidden" message.  I have the user 
> directory permissions at 711 and public_html at 755.
>
> In httpd.conf I have:
>
> <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
>     UserDir public_html
> </IfModule>
>
> <Directory /home/*/public_html>
>     AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
>     Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
>     <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
>         Order allow,deny
>         Allow from all
>     </Limit>
>     <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
>         Order deny,allow
>         Deny from all
>     </LimitExcept>
>
> </Directory>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> David

Do you have SELinux enabled?  Then have a peek at
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/

Also, does the user's home directory have at least the executable bit
set for "other?"  What is the output of

ls -ld /home/[username]

If it is something like this:

[root@thomas ~]# ls -ld /home/thomas
drwx------  4 thomas thomas 4096 Nov 22 10:54 /home/thomas

then you can probably clear up your problem by issuing the command (as
root):

chmod 701 /home/[username]

For example:

[root@thomas ~]# chmod 701 /home/thomas
[root@thomas ~]# ls -ld /home/thomas
drwx-----x  4 thomas thomas 4096 Nov 22 10:54 /home/thomas

Now the user apache has execute access to /home/thomas and since the
httpd runs as user apache it should work.

Cheers,
Thomas

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 22.11.2004 schrieb David Sanders um 17:48:
> I am using Fedora Core 3 and cannot get apache to serve the user's public_html 
> directory.  I only receive a "403 Forbidden" message.  I have the user 
> directory permissions at 711 and public_html at 755.
> David

Please read the docs:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/sn-user-homedir.html

Alexander

[David Sanders]

On Monday 22 November 2004 11:58 am, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 22.11.2004 schrieb David Sanders um 17:48:
> > I am using Fedora Core 3 and cannot get apache to serve the user's
> > public_html directory.  I only receive a "403 Forbidden" message.  I have
> > the user directory permissions at 711 and public_html at 755.
>
> Please read the docs:
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/sn-user-homedir.html

Thanks, that was it.