Bug#153599: apache2-common: public_html does not work for NIS/NFS accounts

[Thom May <thom@debian.org>]

severity 153599 wishlist
tags 153599 wontfix

thanks

if that is the behaviour that you need, you can modify the config
accordingly, but the config at the moment is set up to be FHS compliant (ie,
users in /home/) and I don't see a particular reason to change that.
Thanks for using Apache2!
-Thom
* Laurent Bonnaud (Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr) wrote :
> Package: apache2-common
> Version: 2.0.39-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this machine has both apache 1.3 (on port 80) and apache 2.0 (on port 81).  
> 
> I'm trying to use ~/public_html directories for both local accounts and NIS/NFS
> accounts.  In the examples below:
> 
>  - laurent is a local account with homedir in /home/
>  - bonnaud is a NIS/NFS account with homedir in /users/
> 
> With apache 1.3 both accounts work:
> 
>   http://irancy.lis.inpg.fr/~laurent/
>   http://irancy.lis.inpg.fr/~bonnaud/ (therefore Unix permissions are OK)
> 
> With apache 2.0 only the local account works:
> 
>   http://irancy.lis.inpg.fr:81/~laurent/ -> OK
>   http://irancy.lis.inpg.fr:81/~bonnaud/ -> Error 403 (Access forbidden)
> 
> May this problem be related to this paragraph in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf that
> is restricted to /home/ ? :
> 
> <Directory /home/*/public_html>
>         AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
>         Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
> </Directory>
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux irancy 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
> 
> Versions of packages apache2-common depends on:
> ii  debconf                       1.1.17     Debian configuration management sy
> ii  debianutils                   1.16.3     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii  libapr0                       2.0.37-2   The Apache Portable Runtime
> ii  libc6                         2.2.5-12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libexpat1                     1.95.2-6   XML parsing C library - runtime li
> ii  libgdbmg1                     1.7.3-27.1 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
> ii  libssl0.9.6 [libssl096]       0.9.6d-1   SSL shared libraries
> ii  mime-support                  3.19-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
> ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-2  compression library - runtime
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 

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