Re: User websites

[Vipul Mathur <vipul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:46:56PM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote:
> useradd under Redhat sets home directories to 700 by default when
> creating users.  chmod 711 ~user and you should be fine.
> 
> Regards,
> -- Raju

You must have meant chmod 711 home_dir_of_user

Thanx, it worked. :-)

I knew there was some punga with permissions. ;-)

> >>>>> "Vipul" == Vipul Mathur <vipul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>     Vipul> hi I have been trying to enable http://somesite/~user style
>     Vipul> user-websites on Apachebut in vain. I have done this
>     Vipul> before, but with RH 6.1.
> 
>     Vipul> Now I am using RH 6.2 and the standard apache build. I have
>     Vipul> followed the steps outlined in apache manual, but it still
>     Vipul> does not work. I always get a "403 forbidden" error.
> 
>     Vipul> Does this have something to do with directory permissions?
> -- 
> Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/

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