forbidden access apache userdir
This post was written 8 years ago.
Thu, 02 Oct 2003
After setting UserDir (in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) to use public_html (so that user accounts would have a website at servername/~username) I was getting a "forbidden" message when attempting to browse to the directory or files within it.
Fixed by:-
- setting permissions of user directory to 711:-
# chmod 711 /home/username
- setting permissions of public_html to 755:-
# chmod 755 /home/username/public_html
- stopping apache:-
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
- starting apache:-
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
There are security implications for the above, but I won't go into it here
Fixed by:-
- setting permissions of user directory to 711:-
# chmod 711 /home/username
- setting permissions of public_html to 755:-
# chmod 755 /home/username/public_html
- stopping apache:-
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
- starting apache:-
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
There are security implications for the above, but I won't go into it here
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