[olug] Apache problems between CentOS 3.x and 4.x

[Jake Churchill]

Also, in your apache.conf files, there are several in 2.0 you will have
a section dealing with directory browsing.  I don't have time to dig
through mine right now and frankly I turn that off ALWAYS.  Anyway, one
of the params that must be present is something like BrowseDir or
something along those lines.

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:12 -0500, Daniel Linder wrote:
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> Michael Peterson said:
> > Has anyone figured out the fix to be able to allow browsers to view pages
> > in user directories with CentOS 4.x?
> >
> > I get this response.
> > Forbidden
> > You don't have permission to access /~<username>/ on this server.
> 
> Check to make sure it isn't a permissions problem.  Make sure the users
> Apache is running under has the ability to change into and read your
> ~/public_html directory and files.
> 
> Here are the steps that I have taken that should work:
> 1: Make the users home directory "world execute":
>   chmod o+x /home/user1
> 2: Make the public_html directory (and sub-directories) "world execute":
>   chmod o+x -R /home/user1/public_html
> 3: Make the files in /home/user1/public_html "world readable":
>   chmod o+r /home/user1/public_html/*
> 
> Those steps worked with my Apache setup on an old RH 9.0 server.
> 
> Dan
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