[TriLUG] httpd2.0 hmmm

Aaron S. Joyner aaron at joyner.ws
Tue Jul 13 09:44:36 EDT 2004


Brian Henning wrote:

>Hi Y'all,
>  Running httpd-2.0.49-4 on FC2 on i386..  I'm trying to do some things in
>my UserDir (http://..../~username), which maps to
>/home/username/public_html...  I turned on UserDir in the httpd.conf, and
>fixed the permissions on the directory structure so that I can see, for
>example, an index.html in my /home/username/public_html directory.  However,
>despite proper permissions, I get 403s on any lower-level directories (i.e.
>http://..../~username/something/index.html).  Am I missing something?  I
>knew there is a FollowSymLinks option that can turn off symlinks, but is
>there something that turns off regular subdirectories?  I've looked through
>the conf for some directive, but nothing jumps out at me.
>
>Thanks as always,
>~Brian
>
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>Brian A. Henning
>Strutmasters.com
>866.597.2397
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You say the permissions are right, but just to clarify are those 
sub-directories executable, by the webserver process?  The webserver can 
only descend into a directory that it has execute permissions on.

Aaron S. Joyner



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