Permissions for apache directory

[Paul Howarth]

Jon Jahren wrote:
> Hi.
> I've set up a webserver at home now, which works fine, however, I've set
> documentroot to /var/www/htdocs, and this is not writeable by my regular
> user, and I would like to know what's the most elegant approach for
> making html writable to a regular user? I could do chown -R
> <user> /var/www/htdocs, but I don't want to put my system at risk, and
> using /home/<user>/public_html gives me "permission denied" when trying
> to access it via a browser.

This may be an SELinux issue. Make sure you have UserDir enabled in 
httpd.conf, then do:

# setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1
# chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t ~user/public_html

(see "man httpd_selinux" for details)

Paul.