Re: serving user's homes with apache

2000-12-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:18:27AM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > For one thing, the user's home directory must be excecutable (otherwise apache > can't cd to it). Also, apache must be configured to know which directory in > $HOME is the "magic" one. I believe that public_html is the default. Also, >

Re: serving user's homes with apache

2000-12-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:42:36PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Apache runs with some special privileges, AFAIK as 'nobody'. Not that it makes any real difference in this case, but Debian sets up apache to run as user www-data instead of nobody. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie

Re: serving user's homes with apache

2000-12-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apache is enabled to server users home dirs by default. > However if I place a file in public_html and point a browser to it I get a > permission denied error Apache runs with some special privileges, AFAIK as 'nobody'. So, you've to make sure t

Re: serving user's homes with apache

2000-12-14 Thread D-Man
For one thing, the user's home directory must be excecutable (otherwise apache can't cd to it). Also, apache must be configured to know which directory in $HOME is the "magic" one. I believe that public_html is the default. Also, public_html must be both world readable and world executable. (W

Re: serving user's homes with apache

2000-12-14 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:45:27PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Apache is enabled to server users home dirs by default. > However if I place a file in public_html and point a browser to it I get a > permission denied error be sure /home, /home/user and /home/user/public_html have a+x permi

serving user's homes with apache

2000-12-14 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Apache is enabled to server users home dirs by default. However if I place a file in public_html and point a browser to it I get a permission denied error Why is this? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by